#first pope

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Workshop of Giovanni Bilivert (Italian, 1585-1644) Saint Peter healing Saint Agatha

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Hi, not a bible person myself but I was watching a video and I was curious about something in it and figured I would ask you. It’s a video where a man is illegally arrested for having a sign with what seems to be a pretty controversial message outside of a church as the congregation is all showing up.

I’ve only read the bible once when I was young and my bible study has been limited to a week of barely paying attention at summer camp so I have what I would generously call almost zero context for what this guy was trying to say.

The sign said “The apostle Paul taught the opposite of what Jesus taught.” I know who Paul was but don’t really remember what his teachings were and how they differed so much, and why everyone got so worked up (beyond it seeming like kind of a duck move and the general rivalry between different views of Christianity)

Hi there,

I am not qualified to go into depth, but basically this person is saying that Paul undid all the work of Jesus.

This is problematic in two ways

It implies Jesus made a mistake. Jesus gave Paul the keys to the kingdom and by saying Paul (who was hand picked by Jesus) was wrong in how he lead the early Church…you can see why people get upset.

It implies that Jesus lied. (Matthew 5:15) Jesus said he would not undo Jewish laws but to “fulfill them.” And Paul said that Gentiles would not be required to adhere to Jewish rules. This is the quote many people use when refuting that Jesus would have loved everyone despite xyz.

Obviously, this man should not have been arrested.

tl;dr

Jesus picked Paul to be the leader of Christianity. Some people think Paul did a bad job leading. Some people think that belief in Paul doing a bad job is heresy.

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“To follow Christ is to be in communion with the Pope, and therein lies the only security.” 

St. Jerome

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May 17, 2026, Traditional Latin Mass, Sunday after the Ascension

But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

 But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.  

Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring, As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1Peter 4: 7-10

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The First Pope

By Anonymous - http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0182?sid=a7590df9b8aca22111c8359533716419&zoomlevel=4, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113009649

The first person to hold the position of Pope was Linus, who was the bishop of Rome, another title of the pope, beginning in about 68 CE and going through his death in about 80 CE. By tradition, he received the position from the Apostles Peter and Paul when the Christian church in Rome. It wasn't until the late 2nd or early 3rd century that Peter was considered the bishop of Rome or pope. According to the Liber Pontificalis, a book of papal biographies through the 15th century.

The title of pope comes from the Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas) which means 'father'. It originally applied to all bishops, who originally were elders in the churches who watched over all the churches in a city in an almost monarchical manner as churches tended to be held within private homes. They were tasked with ensuring the churches maintained correct doctrine. It was determined that the bishop of Rome would ensure all other bishops would maintain the right doctrine, becoming the most senior member of the church, though there were other cities that were thought to have been equal initially, such as Jerusalem and Alexandria.

Originally, popes were chosen either by the preceding pope or by senior clergymen near Rome. The College of Cardinals didn't elect the pope until the 11th century CE. As such, Linus' election by Peter and Paul was considered binding though it wouldn't be by modern standards. Peter and Paul also appointed Anacletus at the same time and he was Linus' successor.

The earliest attestation of Linus that we have is from about 100 years after his death by Irenaeus, a Greek bishop who worked in southern modern-day France. Because of this, there is some doubt as to exactly what he did, wit some claiming that he decreed that women should cover their heads when in church, and the early writers claiming he was a martyr. However, records from Nero and Domitian don't record any particular persecution of Christians during their reigns. He was sainted prior to the 12th century, though the exact date has been lost to history. His feast day is the 23rd of September. He was followed by Anacletus, who had been previously appointed by Peter and Paul.

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The First One (1-100 A.D.)

The first Pope was St Peter. His name originally was Simon, a fisherman. Later on he became the first of the disciples of Jesus and of the twelve apostles. St Matthew (XVI, 18–19) reports Jesus as saying to him: ‘Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my church … I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.’ On those few words – the Latin version of which is inscribed around the base of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica – rests the entire structure of the Roman Catholic Church. Nice fact: the name Peter derives from the Aramaic kephas, translated into the Greek petros, meaning a rock or stone.

Whether Jesus meant that he was to establish a church in Rome where infinite successors would follow and reside in that same city is unproven and seems quite unlikely. The city of Jerusalem would surely be a more preferred city by Jesus for such a holy function.

It is unclear what happened to Peter later in life. An early tradition states that St Paul and St Peter were both in Rome in 64 A.D. The historian Tacitus writes that they were one of the victims of a raging fire in the city. A fire presumably caused by the Emperor Nero, it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. However in The Acts of the Apostles by St Luke we see stories of St Paul which took place after the time of the fire. And it is sure that St Peter was with him at that time. It is all very vague. Was Peter really in Rome? He certainly had good reason to, simply because he was entrusted the mission to the Jews, and – with some 30,000–40,000 Jews living in Rome at that time – the early Roman Church would have been very largely Jewish. In any case, Paul met his fate through beheading and Peter was said to be crucified upside down.

In the second century it was generally accepted that Paul and Peter had both been martyred in Rome. There were two cemeteries that were associated with their martyrdom: one outside the walls on the road to Ostia, the other on the Vatican Hill. When, in about A.D. 320, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great decided to build a basilica dedicated to St Peter on the Vatican Hill, he was clearly determined to build it on that precise spot and nowhere else. Right on top of the cemetery. Kind of creepy and disrespectful indeed, but ok. Constantine believed that the bones of St Peter were buried here and that was enough reason to forego all other arguments against building right there.

The thing is, Peter’s function was to be a foundation stone for the Church. And though the doctrine of the Apostolic Succession, which is accepted by both the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches, holds that bishops represent a direct, uninterrupted line of spiritual descent from the Apostles, it doesn’t say anywhere in the New Testament that they may inherit the distinctive commission that was given to Peter alone.

So, in the end. You could say that Peter was the first Pope but actually he was not. He didn’t really build the Roman church. The only thing that links him to the institute that it now is, are those 24 words from Matthew XVI 18-19. It is centuries after the death of Peter that the institute starts to build. Starting with Constantine and his basilica which very fitting would bare the name of the man on whose bones it was built: St Peter.

"Petrus in de gevangenis" (St. Peter in prison) (1631) by Rembrandt van Rijn

While writing this I listened to a Hildegard von Bingen album, yep I still do that sometimes.  I think it is fantastic that so much of her music can be found on digital platforms like Deezer.

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