Whoa, talk about eisegesis. May wish to read the Book instead of the Party commentaries. Is this why Paul had to spank Peter, (?the first "bishop" of Rome) publicly? Sounds like someone nominated the wrong guy. The believers in Christ, alone, will stick to Paul's teaching about the Gospel (14 of the 27 letters/books) and leave Rome to play by itself.
Ive read the Book, and why do you assume you dont read through a lens? You follow your own tradition of interpretation. Luther et al. looked the Bible with the eye of a philologist, and assuming the literal word would tell them more than was there. But it was not as though that had the first drafts of the Evangelists in front of them, and they, not being thorough historians or travelers , misunderstood much of the Biblical world. Like reading Homer and knowing little of the late Bronze age.