By Dr. Jared Staudt, Those Catholic Men - Given the huge proliferation of Christian denominations, I think we have fallen into the position of viewing the Catholic Church as simply the oldest and largest of them all... It was in Antioch that followers of the “way,” as Acts calls them, were first named Christians. It is noteworthy that Christ was the title that referred to Jesus’s kingship as the anointed one or Messiah, who is Lord of all. Christians were likewise anointed into the Kingdom of Christ, accepted Jesus as their Lord.