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*[https://www.catholic.com/tract/was-peter-in-rome Was Peter in Rome? (catholic.com)]</ref><ref>Paul was not the original founder of the church in Rome. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans1:8-15&version=KJV Romans 1:8-15].</ref> and Peter served as the bishop for 25 years until A.D. 67 when he was [[martyr]]ed. Paul's [[Epistle to the Romans]] most clearly and plainly is written to an already established Christian community that he himself had never before seen or visited, and is therefore written to a church obviously founded by someone other than himself.<ref>See '''Romans 1:11-13; 15:22-24'''. Writers who assert that the Apostle Paul is actually the one who founded the church in Rome are either ignorant of scripture, or they are lying. If they have in fact actually read the Bible, especially ''Romans'', but still insist beyond any doubt that Paul himself by the Holy Spirit originally founded the church in Rome, and they are not lying, but only unknowingly repeating a falsehood, then they are blinded by a false doctrine which teaches that Paul was the real founder of the Christian community of believers in Rome, a doctrine in opposition to the clear teaching of the Bible. Writers and denominations that teach this false doctrine should be avoided, but if they are unavoidable, then they should be calmly and gently corrected by simply pointing out and emphasizing these passages in ''Romans''. See Titus 3:10-11; James 5:19-20; 2 Peter 3:15-18. <br>Compare [[Falsehood]], [[Lie]] and [[Deceit]].<br>See also [[Cafeteria Christianity#Proof texts|Proof text]].<br> See the following articles:  

*[https://www.catholic.com/tract/was-peter-in-rome Was Peter in Rome? (catholic.com)]</ref><ref>Paul was not the original founder of the church in Rome. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans1:8-15&version=KJV Romans 1:8-15].</ref> and Peter served as the bishop for 25 years until A.D. 67 when he was [[martyr]]ed. Paul's [[Epistle to the Romans]] most clearly and plainly is written to an already established Christian community that he himself had never before seen or visited, and is therefore written to a church obviously founded by someone other than himself.<ref>See '''Romans 1:11-13; 15:22-24'''. Writers who assert that the Apostle Paul is actually the one who founded the church in Rome are either ignorant of scripture, or they are lying. If they have in fact actually read the Bible, especially ''Romans'', but still insist beyond any doubt that Paul himself by the Holy Spirit originally founded the church in Rome, and they are not lying, but only unknowingly repeating a falsehood, then they are blinded by a false doctrine which teaches that Paul was the real founder of the Christian community of believers in Rome, a doctrine in opposition to the clear teaching of the Bible. Writers and denominations that teach this false doctrine should be avoided, but if they are unavoidable, then they should be calmly and gently corrected by simply pointing out and emphasizing these passages in ''Romans''. See Titus 3:10-11; James 5:19-20; 2 Peter 3:15-18. <br>Compare [[Falsehood]], [[Lie]] and [[Deceit]].<br>See also [[Cafeteria Christianity#Proof texts|Proof text]].<br> See the following articles:  

:*[https://bible.org/article/origins-church-rome '''Origins of the Church at Rome''', Greg MaGee (bible.org)]

:*[https://bible.org/article/origins-church-rome '''Origins of the Church at Rome''', Greg MaGee (bible.org)]

:*[http://www.babylonforsaken.com/romepeter.html '''Was Peter the founder and Bishop of the Church of Rome.''' (babylonforsaken.com/romepeter) <br>—"'''Point Two. The Bible teaches that Paul established the Church at Rome.'''"]</ref> However, the primacy of the bishop of Rome as patriarch in the Western Roman Empire, always acknowledged as "first in dignity", was not unequivocally established as having ''[[Jurisdiction|juridical]]'' primacy for several centuries, and even then a claim to universal primacy "based on history, reason and scripture"<ref>[[First Vatican Council]] of 1870</ref> was rejected by eastern bishops who guide the Eastern Orthodox Church under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople<ref>[https://orthodoxwiki.org/Primacy_and_Unity_in_Orthodox_Ecclesiology Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology (orthodoxwiki.org)]</ref>

:*[http://www.babylonforsaken.com/romepeter.html '''Was Peter the founder and Bishop of the Church of Rome.''' (babylonforsaken.com/romepeter) <br>—"'''Point Two. The Bible teaches that Paul established the Church at Rome.'''"]

The argument of the author of the above article promoting Paul as sole founder of the church in Rome [[Confirmation bias|utterly ignores]] the clear teaching in the Bible itself that Peter was chosen to give the Gospel to the Gentiles, as can be plainly seen in Acts 11:12-18 and 15:7 in which Peter testifies "''that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.''" KJV. Besides the constant witness of apostolic tradition, this scripture is the primary basis for the assertion that Peter preached the Gospel to the uncircumcised Gentiles as well as to the circumcised Jews (see [[sola scriptura]]). Compare 2 Peter 1:1, in which Peter universally addresses "them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ."—(KJV) "to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ."—(RSV). While the First Epistle of Peter explicitly addresses the Christian Jews of the [[Diaspora|''diaspora'', "the dispersion"]], if he was not addressing together as one persecuted people those Gentile and Jewish Christians who were both alike scattered abroad because of the persecution of the church (Acts 8:1; 9:31), here in the Second Epistle of Peter he does not exclude the Gentiles, but addresses all Christians without any distinction whatever. This emphatically affirms the statement in Acts 11:18 "then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life"—"a like precious faith"—and reaffirms the teaching that Peter preached to the Gentiles. Greg MaGee points out in the article above, ''Origins of the Church at Rome'', that Peter need not have been always residing in Rome to be the chief bishop or pastor, and may well have been traveling around to the other Christian communities ("in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia") when Paul was imprisoned there.</ref> However, the primacy of the bishop of Rome as patriarch in the Western Roman Empire, always acknowledged as "first in dignity", was not unequivocally established as having ''[[Jurisdiction|juridical]]'' primacy for several centuries, and even then a claim to universal primacy "based on history, reason and scripture"<ref>[[First Vatican Council]] of 1870</ref> was rejected by eastern bishops who guide the Eastern Orthodox Church under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople<ref>[https://orthodoxwiki.org/Primacy_and_Unity_in_Orthodox_Ecclesiology Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology (orthodoxwiki.org)]</ref>

===Early history to 350===

===Early history to 350===