[A.A. Cunningham]

For the first two centuries, no measurable number of Yeshua’s followers observed any of the practices of what you call “catholic.”

According to whom, you?

I doubt you're even remotely familiar with either the Apostolic or ante-Nicene Church. Polycarp? Ignatius? Clement? Hermas? Barnabus? Papias? Anyone? Anyone?

[editor-surveyor]

You dishonor many early believers by attributing such heresy to them.

[Iscool]

I doubt you're even remotely familiar with either the Apostolic or ante-Nicene Church. Polycarp? Ignatius? Clement? Hermas? Barnabus? Papias? Anyone? Anyone?

Polycarp never wrote anything that could remotely be construed to catalog him as a Catholic...Ignatius' writings were forged by the Catholic religion and who knows about the rest...