Popes are something special: they derive their special position in the church from the fact that they will be in the successor of the “Apostle Princes” Peter and Paul. In the course of time, however, their positions changed: for example, they had a politically great influence, won with the secular powerful rule and also competed with each other. So the road to a Pope Francis was long.
Popes are seen as successors of the “Apostle Princes” Peter and Paul: The two had suffered from 65 AD under Emperor Nero under Emperor Nero. Peter in particular is the first head of the Christian community of Rome: “In turn, Jesus used him through various statements in the Gospels as an upper shepherd of the entire church,” says Öaw historian John Preiser-Kapeller, “This tradition is already demonstrable for the bishops of the 2nd century AD.”
Source: Krone
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