By that logic, if a company president hires a secretary, she's not lower in the hierarchy to the vice-president until she meets him.
You are arguing facts not in evidence as it were. You are also dodging the point that Paul had the Keys. This obliterates any concept of exclusivity. Christ was and is the Boss. Christ did the hiring and firing. And Paul was no secretary to Peter. You'll remember it was Paul who set Peter straight when Pete got out of line. I understand how inconvenient this may be to your philosophy; but, your philosophy is off base and when it's reminded of where it claims to come from it gets ticked off. This is why Christians stick to what the Apostles gave us and Pseudo christians argue for the possibility of double meaning of this or that, plausibility of their constructs and ideas, etc. Some even create entire philosophies looking nothing like Christianity, call it by another name, say it's christian and then try to force people at sword point to accept it as the original though it isn't.