PETRI APOSTOLI POTESTATEM ACCIPIENS Latin Acronym for PAPA(Pope) is it true?

Question

refering to the head of the Catholic Church. History shows one more acronym that includes the word pontificus. Italian language did not exist in ancient rome and the language used was Latin so the acronym comes from the latin language. It does not mean father or daddy or anything related to a fatherly figure. It is a title given tho the head of the Catholic Church.

Answer 1

Pope is not an Acronym. It is simply a word.

pope: Middle English, from Old English papa, from Late Latin, from Latin, father (title of bishops), from Greek pappas

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Peter was not the head of the apostles, and Peter's role as apostle was not passed to anybody else after his death, so even if it is the case that PAPA is an acronym, it's still not Biblical.

The first century church, as described in the Bible, didn't have a head on earth (after the ascension of Jesus); didn't have archbishops, archdeacons, cardinals or pope; didn't teach purgatory, limbo, 'mental reservation' (AKA lying); didn't have a single bishop over multiple congregations; and didn't think anything was more important as a guide than the inspired Word of God.

"Catholic Facts" (given an imprimatur, and as such is official Catholic doctrine, says, "If it is not identical in belief, government, etc., with the primitive Church, then it is not the Church of Christ."

Answer 3

Nice try but what you have sounds like a backronym - here is the ntry from the etymological dictionary:

Pope
O.E. papa, from M.L. papa "bishop, pope" (in classical L., "tutor"), from Gk. papas "patriarch, bishop," originally "father." Applied to bishops of Asia Minor and taken as a title by the Bishop of Alexandria c.250. In Western Church, applied especially to the Bishop of Rome since the time of Leo the Great (440-461) and claimed exclusively by them from 1073. Popemobile, his car, is from 1979. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions in Eng., preserve the original vowel. Popery (1534) was a hostile coinage of the Reformation. )

The Catholic encyclopedia agrees:
(Ecclesiastical Latin papa from Greek papas, a variant of pappas father, in classical Latin pappas -- Juvenal, "Satires" 6:633).

Answer 4

Actually I believe it translates as an address to "the one who hold's Peter's authority."

Pontif means bridgebuilder so a bishop in Latin is seen as a bridgebuilder. Pontiff is a title, Pope is not, it is an adjective.

Of course you have multiple letters from early Christians attesting to papal authority. The earliest is from Clement to Corinth. The next is from Ignatius who was trained by Peter and John and was bishop of Antioch. I would think that somone ordained by Peter and John and bishop of Antioch should know whether or not the bishop of Rome has the authority as head of the church or not.

Answer 5

My translation is rusty to say the least. Is that "Accepting the Power of the Lost Apostle"?

I'm pretty sure it was originally Pater but it was translated into Italian at a later date.

Answer 6

it seems that you've already made up your mind on the issue

Answer 7

No

Answer 8

check here.