The Ancient Papacy

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Was Peter "This Rock?"

When did the word "catholic" first come to be used to identify the "Catholic" Church?

What do you make of the work of Peter Lampe, followed by Allen Brent, which suggests that there was no centralized, monarchical episcopacy at Rome until the end of the second century or the middle of the third?

What is the earliest source of the claim that Peter passed on His Apostolic Authority to Linus? In other words what is the earliest documentation that exists?