Timeline for What evidence is there that Peter was a bishop in Rome?
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| Nov 12, 2018 at 13:47 | answer | added | Ken Graham♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 22:23 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 18, 2018 at 21:22 | comment | added | Geremia | St. Robert Bellarmine's On the Roman Pontiff book 2, chapters 1-11, treats "Whether St. Peter Went to Rome, Remained There as a Bishop and Died There". | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 5:53 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | @curiousdanni: looks you just got the runaround. Nobody willing to post an Answer there. I find the Catholic apologist tracts seem to be battling a strawman. You and I know there's a difference between an apostle, a pope, and a bishop, but apologists conflate them, making meaningful discussion impossible. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 0:02 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Also see my question on Skeptics: Was St Peter a bishop of Rome? | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 15:59 | answer | added | user900 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 13:25 | vote | accept | Brian Hitchcock | ||
| Jan 22, 2015 at 13:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackChristian/status/558249169186738176 | ||
| Jan 22, 2015 at 12:56 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | All very interesting and helpful. Nicely arranged chronologically, so I can tell that none of it is first-century. Also I see a lot of variance in the titles given to Peter. Most of the writers acknowledge he was an apostle, as also was Paul. Most acknowledge that he made Linus a head over the church at Rome. Not until the 4th century writings of Eusebius do I see any reference to Peter having served as bishop of Rome. Biblical sources variously refer to offices of elder, overseer, bishop, etc., and some commentators seem to lump these all together. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 10:34 | comment | added | user13992 | @BrianHitchcock Early Christian Testimony William A. Jurgens, in his three-volume set The Faith of the Early Fathers, a masterly compendium that cites at length everything from the Didache to John Damascene, includes thirty references to this question, divided, in the index, about evenly between the statements that “Peter came to Rome and died there” and that “Peter established his See at Rome and made the bishop of Rome his - from the second link which also has a link to this. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 8:57 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Interesting links, but mostly addressed to the supposed claims of evangelicals that Peter was not head of the church, or that he was never in Rome. I don't doubt he was head of the church, and I'm inclined to think that he was in Rome; if so, it's likely he was martyred there. But that's not what my question was about. I asked about evidence that he was a bishop in Rome. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 7:46 | comment | added | Gregory Magarshak | Wasn't there a real Babylon at the time, a great center of Jewish study? How do we know Babylon really means Rome? | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 5:15 | comment | added | user13992 | PS please also see As we can see from the final greeting, the letter - The First Letter of St. Peter - was written in "Babylon" (5:13), that is, Rome, the capital of the empire, as it used to be called symbolically [...] - from this answer of mine. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 5:07 | comment | added | user13992 | Starting here Google search: evidence of peter in rome and there are a number of sites like this and this from where one can answer. I do not have time to do it myself and I am currently OK with my reps. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 3:56 | history | edited | Flimzy |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 2:16 | history | edited | curiousdannii♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 2:11 | answer | added | Dick Harfield | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 0:43 | history | asked | Brian Hitchcock | CC BY-SA 3.0 |