Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Hierarchical church in first centuries

The primacy of the Roman pontiff is the monarchical authority of the bishop of Rome, from the Holy See, over the several Churches that compose the Catholic Church in the Latin and Eastern Rites. It is also termed "papal primacy", [1] "primacy of Peter", [2] or "Roman primacy"; [3] one might encounter "Peter in primacy over the universal Church," [4] "Successor of Peter", [5] and other related expressions. The Eastern Orthodox churches consider that the Bishop of Rome has a primacy of honor that, since the East-West Schism, is no longe ...

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Monarchical means having the nature of a monarch, i.e. "status or power comparable to" "a sole and absolute ruler of a state" (OED). Pope St. Cornelius [11] d. A.D. 253, gave a detailed accounting of the structure of the Church at the time he was pope, and enquired in a seemingly rhetorical way, "[He], then, did not know that there must be one bishop in the Catholic Church. Yet he was not unaware — how could he be? — that in it there are ..." and thence follows the accounting (Denziger §45, Jurgens §546a). This came about because Novat ...

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Primacy of the Roman Pontiff, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Hierarchical church in first centuries, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Church held to be monarchical, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Primacy of Peter the apostle

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Early belief in the Church is that Jesus granted Peter jurisdiction over the Church. Focusing on an example of Peter's astuteness, St. Clement of Alexandria, [19] in "Who is the Rich man that is Saved", writes of "the blessed Peter, the chosen, the pre-eminent, the first of the disciples, for whom alone and Himself the Saviour paid tribute, [who] quickly seized and comprehended the saying" (Ch. 21), referring to Mk 10:28. Tertullian, [20] while examining Scriptural teachings, legal precedents, and dogma surrounding monogamy and marriage ( ...

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Primacy of the Roman Pontiff, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Hierarchical church in first centuries, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Church held to be monarchical, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Primacy of Peter the apostle

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