[maine-iac7]

There wasn't one. The closest you get to a "super" Apostle is James in Jerusalem, that's if you consider him an Apostle.

Paul certainly thought so, for example - condescendingly - and referred to James the Just, John and Peter as the "so called Pillars of the Church"

[wmfights]

Paul certainly thought so, for example - condescendingly - and referred to James the Just, John and Peter as the "so called Pillars of the Church"

You raise an interesting point. However, decision making was done as a group and not arbitrarily by one person.

Acts 15:6 Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.

Acts 15:22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men...

The arbitrary monobishophoric system emerged after the Apostolic Era ended.