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Another day, another attack thread against the Roman Catholic Church. Sigh.
Well, sorry if I repeat what others have said already, but I haven’t time to read a couple of hundred posts.
Peter was the first head of the Church. He called the Jerusalem Council in Jerusalem, because he hadn’t yet gone to Rome.
When Peter went to Rome, where he was later crucified, that was when the HQ of the Church moved to Rome.
The Church has always included the Council of Jerusalem among the official Councils, usually considered to be the first. Incidentally, there have also been councils in Constantinople, Trent, and elsewhere, under papal authority.
Actually, although Rome has been the center of the Church of 2000 years, from the time that Peter went there, nothing says that the Papacy could not move elsewhere, I God so determines. The central promise was that Peter was the Rock on which Christ would build his Church, and that there would be an apostolic succession of bishops and popes to govern the Church.
The Exile to Avignon was seen as being against the will of God, and the Pope was urged by St. Catherine of Siena to move back to Rome. Undeniably, Rome has a special significance. But the central continuity is Peter and his successors.