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Recently I've written about St. Jerome's view on the matter, as well as St. Ignatius of Antioch's (d. c. 110 or 117). Ignatius is described as the bishop I detail the evidence from early Fathers and Eusebius for monarchical (single) bishops being in place in cities and areas in the first and second centuries.