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Si quis ergo dixerit, non esse ex ipsius Christi Domini institutione seu iure divino, ut beatus PETRUS in primatu super universum Ecclesiam habeat perpetuos successores; aut Romanum Pontificem non esse beati PETRI in eodem primatu successorem: anathema sit.

 

[My translation, as I cannot seem to find an authorized one] And so, if anyone says that it was not by divine law, and the institution of Christ the Lord Himself, that the blessed PETER has perpetual successors as primate over the whole Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of the blessed PETER in that same primacy: let him be anathema.

Si quis ergo dixerit, non esse ex ipsius Christi Domini institutione seu iure divino, ut beatus PETRUS in primatu super universum Ecclesiam habeat perpetuos successores; aut Romanum Pontificem non esse beati PETRI in eodem primatu successorem: anathema sit.

[My translation, as I cannot seem to find an authorized one] And so, if anyone says that it was not by divine law, and the institution of Christ the Lord Himself, that the blessed PETER has perpetual successors as primate over the whole Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of the blessed PETER in that same primacy: let him be anathema.

As I stated in an answer to an entirely different question, the Catholic Church distinguishes between three types of beliefs which Catholics must hold. In 1998, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a document stating and clarifying these types of beliefs, and noting the consequences for failing to assert them.

As I stated in an answer to an entirely different question, the Catholic Church distinguishes between three types of beliefs which Catholics must hold. In 1998, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a document stating and clarifying these types of beliefs, and noting the consequences for failing to assert them.

From this version, however, some material can be drawn: the most apposite is probably item 163, an excerpt from a letter attributed Pope Gelasius I in 495 AD (the Decretal on books to be received, and not to be received):

From this version, however, some material can be drawn: the most apposite is probably item 163, an excerpt from a letter attributed to Pope Gelasius I in 495 AD (the Decretal on books to be received, and not to be received):