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- books?vid=ISBN0-19-514183-0 quote "Ignatius was an avid and outspoken advocate of the monepiscopacy . Each Christian community had a bishop, and this bishop's word was law. The bishop was to be followed as if he were God himself. As Ignatius urges his readers in various churches: 'Be subject to the bishop as to the commandmen' ; 'We are clearly obliged to look upon the bishop as the Lord himself' ; 'You should do nothing apart from the bishop' .".