{To those that think that Catholic is not mentioned in the Bible} Is the word Catholic in the Bible? QUOTE: Acts 9:31 (Greek Bible), ai men oun ekklēsiai kath olēs tēs ioudaias kai galilaias kai samareias eichon eirēnēn oikodomoumenai kai poreuomenai tō phobō tou kuriou kai tē paraklēsei tou agiou pneumatos eplēthunonto EKKLESIA KATHOLES. It is already Catholic UNIVERSAL during the ascension, when Jesus commanded all his apostles led by PETER to preach the GOSPEL throughout the world from (east, west , north and south). So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation ( Mark 16:19-20) (Isaiah 43:4-6) The term Catholic, derived from the Greek word καθολικός (katholikos), which means universal or general, was also accepted and used to describe the Church in the early 2nd century. The term katholikos is equivalent to καθόλου (katholou), a contraction of the phrase καθ ὅλου (kath holou) meaning according to the whole. Thus the full name Catholic Church roughly means universal or whole church. END QUOTE
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