So Ignatius wanted to establish what he understood to be original, true Christianity, and his idea, then, is that the bishop—the role that he occupied—is the only person to be understood as sharing in the thought of Christ. I don’t mean that none of his congregants did but that he was the focal point, and so you could look to him and see that over against these other false versions of Christianity. Now again, try not to interpret this as power, as rich bishops in fancy clothes and “Look at me dominating