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Catholic tradition has always held that Peter moved to Rome, taught there as a teacher, and then died there. Other Christian circles, and a large swathe of his
by shakna 2y ago
Catholic tradition has always held that Peter moved to Rome, taught there as a teacher, and then died there.
Other Christian circles, and a large swathe of historians, disagree on this front. However, it is one of the founding points of the Petrine Primacy, or the reason that Saint Peter is seen as the First Pope of the Catholic Church.
- dylan604 2y agoAny history touted by the Church should be taken with a grain of salt. There are plenty of examples of how they manipulated things in their favor, and are prime examples of history written by the winner theory
- panick21_ 2y agoIf think even more important of who wrote history, is who preserved it. We know of dozens of other version of Christianity just in the second century (already around the time our gospels were written), but their writing are simply no preserved. So the power to not preserve history is just as impactful as writing your own.