Need help finding an ECF quote

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Hi 🙂

I was going through the library on CAF to find a particular quote I only have a vague memory of… and thought maybe somebody here would know better than I what it was.

It had to do with the chair of Peter, and “there is the Catholic Church” or “there is the Church…” And I believe it is one of the earliest quotes we have available referencing the pope as the leader of Christ’s Church.

Sorry to be so vague, is there anyone who knows what I’m looking for? Thanks!
 
You’re thinking I believe of St. Ignatius.

Ignatius of Antioch

“Let no one do anything of concern to the Church without the bishop. Let that be considered a valid Eucharist which is celebrated by the bishop or by one whom he ordains *. Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church” (*Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 110]).
 
It is now my “facebook status” message:D I have been a bit overloaded with reformed theology advocates flooding my “home” page/message board, and thought it could use some Catholic flavor =P
 
" ‘…thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church’ … It is on him that he builds the Church, and to him that he entrusts the sheep to feed. And although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single Chair, thus establishing by his own authority the source and hallmark of the (Church’s) oneness…If a man does not fast to this oneness of Peter, does he still imagine that he still holds the faith. If he deserts the Chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, has he still confidence that he is in the Church?"—St Cyprian, De Unitate Ecclesiae (Primacy text), 4 (A.D. 251), in NE, 228-229

This also could fit the bill
 
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