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The Roman church, like the Eastern church, believe that Christ is he head of the church. The Patriarch and the Pope are merely leaders of their respective groups. The Pope is considered the Vicar of Christ, that is, the titular head of CHRISTIANITY on Earth....Christ is certainly in charge, but by naming Peter as the titular head, ans declaring that what he bound on Earth would be bound in Heaven and what he loosed on Earth would be loosed in Heaven, He gave the Pope the authority to sort of act in His behalf as the head of the church.

It must be really convenient to be a Catholic, just believe in things that make no sense and there is no evidence for.

The Greek Orthodox has never been part of the RCC and up to now have had no desire to worship anybody but Christ as Christ.

What Christ referred to as the rock was obeying the first commandment of putting God first as Peter said, and helping others to see that. If anyone does that the gates of hell cannot prevail against them because God will always be with them. Any church organization can be toppled, as we saw with Rome itself, the rock is not the organization. The RCC has now adopted Obama's agenda and is headed to destruction, to be burned with fire, as the bible says. That is certainly not the rock.

Peter had no primacy with the apostles. John was the apostle Jesus loved. Peter was possessed by Satan when he cut the ear and had to be exorcised by Christ. John was the apostle who received the great honer of recording Jesus' Revelation, not the bishop of Rome. John stood with Jesus at the cross, Peter fled and denied Christ thrice. John became the son of Mary at the cross. Peter was the most talkative of the apostles, sure, but the leader?...no. Remember in school the most talkative kids usually weren't the best students. Peter was a great man, sure, Jesus chose him as one of the twelve. No apostle had primacy though over the other apostles, not even John, and certainly not Peter.

Peter was never in Rome anyway. An impostor recorded by Eusebius was in Rome pretending to be Peter, his name was Simon Magus. Rome was Paul's mission, not Peter's. Peter died of old age as Jesus said he would, in Jerusalem. His ossuary was found there in the 1950s.