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Here is, by the way, Chrysostom's treatment of the grant of the Keys.

Chrysostom correctly sees in the gift of the keys an exercise of divine power parallel only to the gift of the Incarnation of the Son:

For those things which are peculiar to God alone, (both to absolve sins, and to make the church in- capable of overthrow in such assailing waves, and to exhibit a man that is a fisher more solid than any rock, while all the world is at war with him), these He promises Himself to give
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... which manner of gifts were greater, those which the Father gave to Peter, or those which the Son gave him? For the Father gave to Peter the revelation of the Son; but the Son gave him to sow that of the Father and that of Himself in every part of the world; and to a mortal man He entrusted the authority over all things in Heaven, giving him the keys; who extended the church to every part of the world, and declared it to be stronger than heaven. "For heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away."How then is He less, who hath given such gifts, hath effected such things?
(Homily 54 on the Gospel of Matthew)

Note also that it is Peter "fisher more solid than any rock" personally, not the apostolic college, who "extended the church to every part of the world, and declared it to be stronger than heaven". St. Peter is named "chief of the apostles" later in the homily.

Here is, by the way, Chrysostom's treatment of the grant of the Keys. ...Chrysostom correctly sees in the gift of the keys an exercise of divine power parallel only to the gift of the Incarnation of the Son:

Well it's a good thing the Catholic Church cleared up that matter. Otherwise someone like Diamond might mistake Chrysostom's keys for the kingdom "keys". Now we know there's all sorts of keys floating around. I suppose they have an explanation for these keys:

Rev 1:18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Undoubtedly another set of keys.