[AnAmericanMother]

You may be invincibly ignorant. Put down The DaVinci Code and back away, slowly.

There are many, many contemporaneous Christian writers from the first and second centuries A.D. who mention St. Peter as Bishop of Rome and head of the Church.

In order to believe that nonsensical geocities website, you have to ignore ALL the historical evidence (and there is plenty.)

[donmeaker]

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html

I just went through the above site: It confirmed my memory of my courses at Evangel College:

None of the First Century writers mentioned Peter as bishop of Rome. The mentions of him were either quotes from the gospel, or allusions to Peter as an apostle.

[donmeaker]

Would you do me the great favor and tell me the names of one or two of the early Christian writers who name Peter as Pope or Bishop of Rome?

That would save me the trouble of hunting through everyone to convince myself of a negative, and then I would find that I had missed one.