hmm, not sure what “rome” is, but there is only one true Universal Church, it has been on earth visibly for close to 2,000 years, it has never fallen away as some false prophets teach, it has always followed the Apostolic teaching whether by written word or oral preaching, it is led by the Holy Spirit into all truth, and you are correct the NT does not record the Apostles marrying anyone to the best of my knowledge, statues and holy water have never been and are not today essential parts of the Faith and no one I know has ever prayed to a dead person ( the dead can’t hear anything ).....now praying to those alive in Christ and who are currently in heaven, different story.
but you know what else you don’t find in the NT? you don’t find people reading the Scriptures and deciding to form new “churches” based on what THEY believe the Scriptures teach. you don’t find in Corinth a Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Mormom, Pentecostal, Jehovah Witness or any other “church” than the ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
No such animal as "apostolic" succession... what is the measuring rod for truth ?