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Since Peter was the only apostle (no mention of Paul) to have worked in the West, thus the only persons to have established churches in Italy, Spain, Gaul, Sicily, Africa, and the Western islands were bishops appointed by Peter or his successors. This being the case then, all congregations had to abide by the regulations set in Rome. [14]
The Acts of Peter is one of the earliest of the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Christianity, dating to the late 2nd century AD. The majority of the text has survived only in the Latin translation of the Codex Vercellensis , under the title Actus Petri cum Simone ("Act of Peter with Simon").
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve [1] [2] or the Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles [3] [4] is a Christian text from about the 4th century. [5] It is the first treatise in Codex VI of the Nag Hammadi library texts, [6] [7] taking up pages 1–12 of the codex's 78 pages. [6] The writing extends the Parable of the Pearl from Matthew 13:45–46.
Peter: Apostle for the Whole Church. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Pham, John-Peter. Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ray, Stephen K. Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church. (ISBN 0-89870-723-4)
The apocryphal Acts of Peter (2nd cent.) (Vercelli Acts XXXV) [140] is the source for the tradition about the famous Latin phrase "Quo vadis, Domine?" (in Greek: Κύριε, ποῦ ὑπάγεις "Kyrie, pou hypageis?"), which means "Where are you going, Lord?". According to the story, Peter, fleeing Rome to avoid execution meets the risen Jesus.
Section of a fresco in the Niccoline Chapel by Fra Angelico, depicting Saint Peter consecrating the Seven Deacons. Saint Stephen is shown kneeling.. The Seven, often known as the Seven Deacons, were leaders elected by the early Christian church to minister to the community of believers in Jerusalem, to enable the Apostles to concentrate on 'prayer and the Ministry of the Word' and to address a ...
So he appointed the twelve:[b] Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who ...
The number of members can only be estimated. According to Acts 1:13-15, there were initially only around 120 "brothers", whereas Acts 2:41 already mentions 3,000 first baptized after Peter's first sermon, 4:4 soon after 5,000: however, these figures appear to be far inflated in view of the meetings in the Jerusalem temple tolerated by the ...