The Catholic Church hadn’t been established at that tine.
Sure it had...Upon this Rock I will build My church..the birth of Catholiciam...admittedly named a little later but we're dealing with a 2,015 year old institution....what's a few months or years matter.....by the end of the first century (a blink of the eye)...they were Catholic (universal) and gone through 3 or 4 Popes already...