Simon Peter . . . after having been bishop of the church of Antioch and having preached to the Dispersion ---the believers in the circumcision, in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia --- pushed on to Rome in the second year of Claudius to overthrow Simon Magus, and held the sacerdotal chair there for twenty-five years until the last, that is the fourteenth year of Nero.
Does the Magisterium of the RCC stand by this statement or was Jerome mistaken, not just once but on many points?
BTW ---- You were the one who told me to read the "Fathers" and so I'm doing it. What you might not like is that I am reading the writings of the "Fathers" with the same critical mind that you are reading the Scriptures, right?
No.
Does the Magisterium of the RCC stand by this statement or was Jerome mistaken, not just once but on many points?
I don't know the answer to this question. As far as I know the precise length of Peter's bishopric in Rome is not a matter of Catholic doctrine or dogma.
You were the one who told me to read the "Fathers" and so I'm doing it.
Excellent.
What you might not like is that I am reading the writings of the "Fathers" with the same critical mind that you are reading the Scriptures, right?
That does not seem to be a charitable comment, for it assumes that I read the Scripture with a "critical" or skeptical mindset. And nothing could be further from the truth.
-A8
Wisdom is lovely to see.