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To: cva66snipe
"And according to Hippolytus the first Pope was Linus not Peter."

I wouldn't take the list of Hippolytus, the first antiPope too seriously. All credible scholars and historians unanimously agree that St. Peter, appointed by Jesus, was the first Bishop of Rome and Pope.

375 posted on 10/30/2011 12:13:51 PM PDT by Natural Law (Transubstantiation - Change we can believe in.)
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To: Natural Law; cva66snipe

****All credible scholars and historians unanimously agree that St. Peter, appointed by Jesus, was the first Bishop of Rome and Pope.****

If we wanted to get Technical and biblical, the first leader of the Church was James the Dirty (never bathed) of Jerusalem.

Even Peter feared him when Peter came from the conversion of Cornelius, and James made the decisions when St Paul went to Jerusalem to free the Gentiles from circumcision.


379 posted on 10/30/2011 12:48:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare!)
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