Relating to Antioch, an ancient city in Syria; a person from Antioch or a follower of the theological school of Antioch.
From Antioch (Greek Antiókheia), a major city founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus, named after his father Antiochus. In early Christian history, Antioch was the third-largest city in the Roman Empire and developed its own distinctive theological approach.
Antioch was so important in early Christianity that it's where followers of Jesus were first called 'Christians'—and Antiochene theology developed a particular way of interpreting the Bible that competed with other schools like Alexandrian theology.
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