I have a custom post type called "Projekte" and for it some categories.

I would like to display the category name of the posts in the loop but only once.

I am using this but the category is being displayed on top of every post.

How can I solve it?

My code:

    <?php
      $category = the_category();
    ?>
    <h2 style="text-transform: uppercase;">
    <?php
      if($i == 1) { 
        echo $category[1]->cat_name; 
      }
      $i++;
    ?>
    </h2>     


Many thanks in advance