Victor I: the First Pope and the Head of the Christian Ecclesiae
Paweł Głowacki
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5243-508X
Abstract
The article raises the issue of papal primacy in Christian antiquity. It describes the Quartodeciman controversy of the 2nd century, in which the Church in Rome played a significant role. Based on the account of its course - taken from Eusebius of Caesarea - it is shown that the Bishop of Rome, Victor, was aware of his jurisdictional responsibility for Churches located outside Rome. This also means that the concept of the papacy existed already at the end of the 2nd century and Victor is the first pope in history in the full sense of the word. Using the inductive method in the analysis of patristic sources, the article creates a synthetic vision of the problem formulated in the topic, at the same time responding to certain counter-arguments made by other scholars who do not share such a reading of historical facts.
Keywords:
bishop of Rome, Victor I, first pope, head of the Church, Quartodeciman controversy, papal primacyReferences
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