[MHGinTN]

You post as if axiomatic, "Were it not for the inspired activities, especially liturgical activities, of the Church, we would not have Scriptures." First and foremost THE CHURCH is not the catholic church, albeit you slyly try to use the term as if it were. The institution of the Catholic beliefs was used BY GOD because HE chose to do so for HIS REASONS which you and I have not a clue.

THE EKKLESIA, Church of believers not a religious institution, gathered the letters and Gospels and shared them among congregations, making a collection by making careful copies. By the time Polycarp wrote to the Phillipians his letters make reference to so much of what is now in The Bible that it is thought all of what became canon was already well established among the EKKLESIA.

[MHGinTN]

Now you can correct me for the plural of letter, since only one letter from Polycarp to Phillipi is known to have survived the ages.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Polycarp was a Catholic Bishop. All of those who sponsored the collection, copying, translation and distribution of approved Scriptures in the centuries before Nicaea, were Catholic bishops.

And they did this to have an approved canon for the already well-established liturgy... which is why "the canon was already well established among the EKKLESIA."