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Thanks for making my point about flawed interpretations. Since Jesus was talking to (then-named) Simon and establishing him as Pope Peter ("Petros" and variants is the word for "rock" in almost all Latin and ME languages). There is Biblical support for the line of succession from Peter to the modern day Pope.

Where?

Not only is there no papacy in the NT church, there is not priesthood, no sacrifices..bloody or unbloody

The Scripture outlines what the NT church should look like, and the God given outline looks nothing like the Roman church

Nice stories -- it's been repeated to your grouping over and over again on the proof for a ministerial priesthood and on a bishop/episcopi/elder.

Instead we get repetitions of rot. Read the Didache from 70 AD chapter 9 on the Eucharist and see what the Early church really looked like -- it was the Catholic Church, dripping with orthodoxy, not the come as you like it followers of Calvin RCC (Raving Calvinist Clan)

Romans 15:16

That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit."

where the verb hierourgeo (to act as a priest) is used.

All of God’s faithful people share in the priesthood of Christ by virtue of their baptism: "Christ, high priest and unique mediator, has made of the Church ‘a kingdom, priests for his God and Father’"

The whole Church is a priestly people. Through baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the ‘common priesthood of all the faithful.’

And John 21

When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. [16] He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. [17] He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.

Catholic priests (also called presbyters which is usually translated as "elders" in most English Bibles) guide the Church under the authority of the bishops (called episkopoi in the New Testament). This is as in scripture

1 Pet 2.9 guide the Church under the authority of the bishops (called episkopoi in the New Testament). quotes from Exodus 19:6, where the people of Israel are called "a kingdom of priests." Isaiah 61:6 says that in the New Covenant times, the restored people of God will be called "priests of the Lord." and just as the whole priesthood of believers included a special calling for the Levites as priests.