Monday, February 3, 2020

Six Bishops of Rome/Popes Affirming the "Rock" was the Confession of Peter


The following are from six popes who affirmed that, based on Matt 16:18, the Church was founded by Christ on the confession of Peter, not the person of St. Peter:

Pope Felix III: Et super ista confessione aedificabo Ecclesiam meam (Fifth Epistle to the Emperor Zeno)

Pope Hormisdas: Sancti . . . qui beati Petri fidem secuti sunt, per quam aedificata est Ecclesia Christi. (Commonitorium)

Pope Gregory I: In petra Ecclesiae, hoc est, in confessione beati Petri Apost. (Lib. Iii, Epist. 33, to Queen Theodelina)

Pope Hadrian I: Petri fidem supra quam fundatur Ecclesia Christi. (Epist. Actione II. Septimae Synodi)

Pope John VIII: Supra quam etiam solidam confessionis petram suam Dominus Ecclesiam fabricavit. (Epistles 76, ad Petrum Comitem)

Pope Stephen V: Ecclesia fundata supra firmam petram, Apostoli videlicet Petri Confessionem. (Epist. Ii., universis Episcopis, &c)

Taken from:

Arthur Edward Gayer, Papal Infallibility And Supremacy Tried By Ecclesiastical History, Scripture And Reason (London: Partridge and Co.,1877), 132