The truth is -that Saint Peter being in Rome was completely agreed upon until the Reformation
This coupled with the fact that the eastern Churches would have used mass propaganda against the west during the schism if there was even a shred of evidence that Peter was never in Rome , once again this shows us that the reformers were not grounded in truth.
And just who agreed upon it. For centuries the magisterium declared that the evidence of Peter's 25 year episcopacy in Rome was so settled in history as to be indisputable, until it turned out to be all made up out of whole cloth by Jerome and Eusebius. I was raised on that myth but now the Vatican has backed way off of it, to such an extent that all it is left with is "that Peter was in Rome, once upon a time" ---
Well -- whoopy doo. So you build your church on a one- time visit??? If that is the case then all those other cities that Peter visited have just as much claim to being the Church of St Peter as the Vatican does.
This coupled with the fact that the eastern Churches would have used mass propaganda against the west during the schism if there was even a shred of evidence that Peter was never in Rome,
The EOC had their own propaganda campaign going on trying to prove that Peter was the first Pope of Antioch. So they also were blinded in that matter.
once again this shows us that the reformers were not grounded in truth.
All that the reformers said is "let's revisit the matter to examine the evidence that the Vatican claims that it has." That is something that everyone should do, reformer and non-reformer alike. The evidence has turned out to be contrary to what the Vatican claimed.
The source of the Peter in Rome myth was traced to the Acts of Peter that began circulating in the 2nd century AD which a lot of church fathers foolishly thought to be credible.
And now the Vatican through Pope Paul VI and a misguided archeologist has you all convinced that the bones of a 5'6" skeleton of a man who died in his sixties found under St Peter's Basilica are the bones of a that 6+foot former fisherman apostle who died in his eighties. And the skull of that short skeleton does not match the supposed skull of Peter on display and worshipped for centuries by the deluded faithful at St Johns Lateran.
You should call your church the Church of the Perpetually Gullible.