[Syncro]

The [Catholic) Church has survived for two thousand years.

Not the Catholic church, it started about 1700 years ago give or take a few decades.

Name a currently-surviving institution that comes close.

During New Testament times, with the inspiration of Jesus, His Deity and his sacrifice on the cross, His church was started.

It is made up of every person that "hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me" (Jesus, in John 5:24) who therefore is born again and has that personal relationship with Jesus.

It has been going strong for about 2000 years, and will continue forever. The gates of hell cannot prevail against it.

[NYer]

Not the Catholic church, it started about 1700 years ago give or take a few decades.

Correction, it began as scripture states in Matthew 16:18: "And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it."

Peter was the first pope, followed by

First Century

1. St. Peter (32-67)
2. St. Linus (67-76)
3. St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
4. St. Clement I (88-97)
5. St. Evaristus (97-105)

Second Century

6. St. Alexander I (105-115)
7. St. Sixtus I (115-125)
8. St. Telesphorus (125-136)
9. St. Hyginus (136-140)
10. St. Pius I (140-155)
11. St. Anicetus (155-166)
12. St. Soter (166-175)
13. St. Eleutherius (175-189)
14. St. Victor I (189-199)
15. St. Zephyrinus (199-217)

Third Century

16. St. Callistus I (217-22)
17. St. Urban I (222-30)
18. St. Pontain (230-35)
19. St. Anterus (235-36)
20. St. Fabian (236-50)
21. St. Cornelius (251-53)
22. St. Lucius I (253-54)
23. St. Stephen I (254-257)
24. St. Sixtus II (257-258)
25. St. Dionysius (260-268)
26. St. Felix I (269-274)
27. St. Eutychian (275-283)
28. St. Caius (283-296)
29. St. Marcellinus (296-304)

All the way up to the present day.

[Ann Archy]

Are you saying that the Catholic Church started in 1700 or so?? REALLY???