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Diego, I am most appreciative of your offer. It is very kind of you to offer the results of your exhaustive research. But you see, I already have a research partner, Adiaireton8 and we have already chosen the topic of our dissertation: EVIDENCE FOR... not...EVIDENCE AGAINST

What you have there is a competing dissertation, and, I must confess, I am a little jealous because your list of EVIDENCE is longer than ours at this point. I almost wish that we could change the topic of our dissertation to the AGAINST side because there is such slim pickens at this point on the FOR side. But the future "Dr A8" can attest to the fact that the Magisterium does not like to change, to change its mind, and for its doctoral candidates to change their theses just because they can't find any information to go on. They like creative candidates --- those who can pull things out thin air if they have to, rhetorically speaking, of course.

You have 10 points already for your thesis, and we have, uhhhh none --- but it's early in the process and we're only in the Book of Acts. And anyway I have great confidence in my research partner. Mine is only the first half. Wait until you see what he comes up with for his half of the project. He is a great finisher and his part of the thesis should prove to be quite substantial, because he knows the writings of "the Fathers" like few others, and that is where our thesis will begin to take off [I hope]. I appreciate you posting that information "AGAINST" Peter in Rome because it now helps me narrow our search "FOR" evidence of Peter in Rome even further.

Perhaps we should have dueling theses --- ours FOR and yours AGAINST --- and we will see whose thesis is the longest and most substantial.

Hey Adiaireton8, I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you like first? The good news is that I have completed my search through the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. The bad news is that I found no evidence for that alleged bishopric of Peter in Rome --- well bad news for the magisterium anyway. Are they the least bit concerned yet? Well we have the Ante-Nicene Fathers yet to go, and I am sure that they will tell us all we wish to know about Peter. So tell them not to drop their robes yet.

I have searched through the Latin Vulgate, the Douay Rheims, the Challoner, the NIV, NASB, and other bibles but no evidence has surfaced. Should I look in the King James Bible? Oh is it still on "the List".? Could you post for me that updated "List of Forbidden Books". Mine is dated 1950 and it still has the King James Bible on it? And could you check to see if that Nihil Obstated and Imprimatured work of F.A. Sullivan From Apostles to Bishops ever made "the List"? You know, the one who claimed that the first church in Rome was shepherded by presbyterians not a bishop? Yeh!! the First Presbyterian Church of Rome. I'm sure he was popular at mass after that?

How is your search through the AnteNicene Fathers going? . Don't forget to search Clement of Rome thoroughly. Yeh, it would be ironic if Peter passed his authority down to a "presbyterian". The Keys of St Peter handed over to the First Presbyterian Church of Rome. Wouldn't that cause a scandal? Well, we haven't found anything yet about Peter in Rome, so tell them not flutter their cassocks.

Well its on to the Epistles. And yes, I am searching the Septuagint as well, and shhhhhh, even the King James Bible, just in case they missed anything. And after that I will be going down to the University to check all of the old manuscripts, the vellums, the uncials, miniscules, the Peshita, the Ethiopic, the Sahidic, the Old Latin, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and yes even all that papyrus from the sands of Egypt. We will find evidence of Peter's bishopric somewhere, don't you think?

Godspeed on your end. And check with your superiors to see if we can have access to the Vatican Library. They might have some good stuff in there that's just gathering dust.