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Yes he did. Such a determination would have to be made by somebody with the authority to do so and Peter certainly did. This is precisely the authority he had from Christ when he gave him the power of the keys" and gave him the Petrine ministry of "confirming the brethren." It's the strongest Catholic point you could have made.

Every tradition your Church has is a contradiction of God's scripture...

2Co 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Paul knew there was no singular chief apostle...He knew there were chiefest apostles and HE WAS ONE OF THEM...

1Co_4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

There is nothing written that puts Peter above the rest...And that is confirmed by Paul in the previously posted verse...

1Co 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

This verse clearly points out that no one is to follow Peter, or Paul, or anyone...

1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

By claiming Peter is your first pope, God says you are carnal...

Nevetheless, St. Peter died in the mid-60's, before the whole New Testament was even written, and somebody (some individual or some group) would have to assume that authority to determine what was Holy Scripture. He had to have had a successor in this, because the canon was not yet closed.

That comes from carnal thinking...Philosophical, humanist thinking...

Joh_16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

This was not written to your religion to develop doctrine in the future...This was the promise of Jesus to the apostles to have a source of revealed truth to be put into the written scriptures...

We know the Spirit of God revealed to John the apostle the mysteries of the book of Revelation...When that Revelation to John was finished, God's revelation to mankind was finished...