The Papists are at it again, I see. Inserting the Papacy, an institution that arose in the 600’s, but having its roots some 300 years earlier in the church-state arrangement of the time of Constantine, into the church of the first century.
RnMomof7 posted a similar thread not too long ago, about how the Papacy presupposes their institution into the Bible - in this case, the book of Acts. Everywhere it doesn’t belong, in other words.
How anybody can think those that gathered in Jerusalem, Peter, James, etc., were a bunch of rosary bead counting, Mary idloators, is beyond me.
Major Anachronism alert! The Rosary was not popularized until the 13th Century, so you'd only be off by about 12 centuries here. The Rosary does not define the presence of the Church. It is not the defining element.
The Church also does not comprise Mary 'Idloators' (sic).
And the Papacy did not "arise" 300 or 600 years after Christ. This is tendentious , and also rests on a false and anachronistic definition of "Papacy."
You need an adequate definition of what the Catholic Church is before you can venture a guess about where it is, or is not.
You may not be aware that there was no other religion than the one Christ founded on the Apostles, the first Bishops who then led the Catholic faith onward when Christ ascended into heaven.
There were no arguments even about the Eucharist, because everyone believed.
Not until Luther showed up in the 1500s was there anything to even compare Catholicism to.