Boy that's a really erudite comment.
1 Peter 5:1 The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder...
Not the comments of one who considered himself the "one supreme leader" is it.
3John 9 I wrote to the church but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them does not receive us.
Even in the earliest days of Christianity we are being told about those that would assert personal control for their own ambitions.
Luke 17:21 "nor will they say 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
The Church is the body of believers indwelt by the Holy Spirit not a particular earthly institution. There may even be some of these folks where you go to church.
I save my erudition for the worthy. Sometimes you just have to say that crap is, well, crap.
Actually, the pope is one among many elders, that is, the bishops of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
If you think that the scripture supports groups of elders like in TEC, PCUSA, UMC, UCC voting on scripture, you are deluded.
The petrine ministry is clearly outlined in Peter’s undeniable leadership throughout the gospels and the rest of the NT.