The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna Concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp

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The Church of God which sojourns at Smyrna, to the Church of God sojourning in Philomelium,⁴²⁰ and to all the congregations⁴²¹ of the Holy and Catholic Church in every place: Mercy, peace, and love from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, be multiplied.

Notes

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Some read, "Philadelphia," but on inferior authority. Philomelium was a city of Phrygia.
421
The word in the original is poroikiais, from which the English "parishes" is derived.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.