No books of the NT predate the Church. The Church was founded at Pentecost with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit..
That must have been when Peter had his papal coronation ceremony. How did that miss making the papers?
It’s only presumption that the pouring out of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost created the CATHOLIC church.
No where in Scripture is the Catholic church ever mentioned.
Simply co-opting the term *church* and claiming that it retroactively means the Catholic church has no basis and is unsubstantiated.
It does not put the claims of the Catholic church as the church Jesus started and being the OTC, beyond dispute.