[OLD REGGIE]

You would have no organized Church and no Papacy prior to Constantine

St. Peter was succeeded by one Linus of whom we know nothing. Depending on historian, either the next or as late as fourth pope was Clement I and he left quite a legacy, way before emperor Constantine.

Pope St. Clement I

This tells it all! "St. Peter was succeeded by one Linus of whom we know nothing."

Your entire story of the early Papacy's is an example of retroactive history built on myth, legend, imagination, and fiction.

Clement was the Bishop of Rome with no "supremency" over the other Bishops. There was no such title as POPE!

[metmom]

There’s precious little known for sure of the early (so called) Catholic church history.

It’s all hearsay and indirect evidence.

Nothing very substantial for the church which claims was founded by Jesus Himself. You’d think if that were the case, the Jesus established and appointed the RCC to be THE church on the earth through which salvation were to come, that He’d have done a better job of establishing it and preserving for posterity, it’s beginnings.

There’s far too much of a gap between the Acts of the Apostles and Constantine.

[annalex]

We know nothing of Linus, correct. That is surprising?

Clement was the Bishop of Rome with no "supremency" over the other Bishops. There was no such title as POPE!

That is true, the word Papa is of a later origin, and it was originally a term of endearment. The formal title is Bishop of Rome to this day. St Clement wrote his Letter to the Corinthians to instruct the Church in Corinth regarding some defrocked priests. That was far from Roman local jurisdiction.