“The Catholic Church was begun by Jesus and there is a lineage known and recorded from the beginning to this day.”
No. The Roman Catholic Church was begun by the developers of the Roman Catholic Church, not Christ. Christ’s body of believers is known to Christ and known wherever he find them.
Yehsua did not name Peter as the foundation of His Church.
Yeshua identified Peter’s answer - “the faith that you are the Christ” as the foundation of His Church. It is upon the foundation of that belief, that faith. not Peter, that the faith, the good news, is offered, and the flock is drawn in - not because of ANY human institutional “church”.
Upon this rock I shall build my Church...that was the beginning of the Catholic Church, period. Jesus did not just speak figuratively, but literally as the Basilica was built upon Peter’s grave. You cannot win against God friend.