. . . with the successor of Peter . . . (my bolding for emphasis)
But not above him, while the pope does not the bishops to ratify the veracity and authority of what he said "from the chair."
Yet RCs charge us with presuming to be "little popes," though instead of presuming ensured infallibility, our veracity must rest upon the weight of evidential warrant.
However, note that only the very declaration of an infallible statement is considered to be protected from error, and not the arguments or reasoning enlisted in support of it (and despite the lack thereof).
Nor are infallible statements considered to be wholly inspired of God as Scripture is, or as providing new public revelation, and thus they cannot be equal with Scripture, or all the oral wholly inspired statements and new revelation of men such as the apostles. "