How did the catholic church get based in rome?

Answer 1

Almost from the start.

At the time of Jesus Christ, Rome was the capital of the known world.

Both Saints Peter and Paul wound up in Rome and were martyred there.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

St Peter, supposedly the first so called "Pope", is traditionally identified as the first head of the movement that would eventually become christianity (not including various local gnostic movements in Egypt and elsewhere around the mediterranean). At thst time of course it was probably just a secret religious society with a few hundreds or thouands of members. He was one of the original 12 apostles and is commonly associated with the founding of the church (Peter, his name, comes from the latin Petrus, meaning "rock")

Why Rome? well, St Peter was crucified upside-down in Nero's circus during one of the many episodes of christian persecution carried out by that paranoid emperor, who used the Christians as scapegoats for a number of contemporary catastrophes. St Peter's cathedral is built near the site of his death, supposedly over his nearby tomb. So he is, literally, the rock on which the catholic church was founded.

Answer 3

I trust you would like the facts.
Acording to the writings of Josephus, Paul traveled to rome with a party of religious in 60 AD.
Linus, a cousin of the emperor, saw the great potential of the religion Paul was preaching, and decided to take it over on behalf of the state.
Linus collected all the papers from Paul.
Linus was also involved in the exicution of Peter.
Lucurn, tells us that Paul was so upset by loosing control of the religion he had spent such effort in creating, that he returned to his mothers home in Greece where he committed suicide in67 AD.

Linus was the first man to call himself Papa (pope).
The practice of controlling the christian religion stayed with rome, as did the collecting of any documents which could throw light on the correct life of Jesus.

The vatican has 32 miles of shelving of documents, all of which cann`t be viewed by the public and many of which are sealed and may not even be viewed by the religious.

Answer 4

The Catholic church adopted the Roman idea of government and basically with the fall of the Roman empire took over the job of how to control people.
Up until the time of the forth century churches were not very united. The church started to be divided over issues in doctrine.
Augustine, Ambros and Jerome were three friends who started to build the Catholic concepts the the Roman church took to mean it was the true church. With Augustine's book "the City of God " he made the concept that the Catholic church had all the truth and was the true church. However it was far from the truth. The eastern church which remained separate was far more in line with the early church teachings on just about all doctrine.
The power of the Roman Church grew out of the Roman Empire collapsing and them picking up the civil power in its place. Throughout Europe the Catholic church of Rome took over secular power with Kings bowing to the Church.
Places like Ireland did not come under the yoke of Rome until late in the 8th century. They continued to send out missionaries who taught a purer form of the gospel and stayed separate from Rome.
Small groups of Christians in the mountains of Switzerland etc. stayed separate and were continually killed by the Roman church.
There is no evidence that Peter was ever bishop of Rome or ever took the role of a Bishop. He travel preaching extensively and even made it to Britain. Westminster cathedral is built over a stone which says "Peter Preached here.

Answer 5

Around or about 45 AD, Peter went to Rome and from there lead the Catholic Church. As of today, there have been 263 Popes in direct succession to Peter. The position of Pope was established by Christ and the office has been maintained in an apostolic manner since the time of Christ. Although the Church has fragmented since the time of Christ with various leadership centers emerging, the apostolic line of succession in the Church is seated in Rome until this very day. Many throughout time have tried to rationalize away and deny the authority and structure of the Church as established by Jesus. In my heart I know that Catholic Church is the Church established by Jesus and has maintained a clear line of apostolic leadership to this very day. The Church has celebrated the sacraments and worshiped the Lord in essentially the same way since the time of Christ.

Answer 6

A little Church History 101:

Through the first centuries of Christianity, the Church was a sort of loose association of worshipping communities, most of which met in people’s houses. This Church was referred to as “catholic,” which really means “universal.”

“Catholic” technically means, “All the Baptized Members of Jesus Christ.” Kath = "according to" and Holos = "the whole".

As Christianity spread, the bishops worked hard to standardize their beliefs and practices to make sure that everyone had the same story, even if their experiences of God were richly diverse. By the fourth century, the fundamental doctrines of the Church had been formalized into the Nicene Creed. There continued to be tension, however, across the Church concerning all sorts of matters, including worship and technicalities of theology. The geography and diversity of the Church grew until it finally split into two parts in the 11th Century between two cities: The Roman Catholic Church, based in Rome, Italy, and the Eastern Orthodox Church centered in Constantinople, now Istanbul in Turkey. Each part claimed to be the “true church.”

In Western Europe in the 16th Century, tensions in the Roman Catholic Church had grown again to the point that another “schism” (or split) took place, led by Martin Luther and is commonly referred to in Western history as the “Reformation.” The “Lutheran Church,” which grew out of Luther’s ideas, was the first of the so-called “Protestant” Churches (because of their “protest” of Rome). From that point on, the Church has continued to fracture into more and more denominations, depending largely on the way their governing bodies make decisions (called “polity”), their arguments about aspects of Christianity (at what age Christians should be baptized, for instance), or their styles of worship.

Answer 7

Jewish advisers to Emperor Constantine...

Yes, the Roman Catholic Church was founded by JEWS and Mad Roman Emperor -

Roman Catholics = Lambs to the Slaughter!

Answer 8

st peter was a roman and constantine wanted his religion based in the heart of the empire, but the pope was based in france for about 200 years a while ago

Answer 9

(c) Concerning the foundation of the Christian Church in Rome there is authoritative testimony that it was not accomplished by St. Peter. It was established by Christians who settled in Rome. Moreover, St. Paul considered it his Church. He mentioned this in his epistle to the Romans, “. . . from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation ... for which, cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey.” (Rom. 15:19-20, 22-23)
Father K, you need to check this website out also. You jumped to the middle ages too fast. Too much information.

Answer 10

Originally based in Constantinople (with Roman Emperor Constantine establishing the faith as the "official" faith of the empire. When the split between West (Rome) and East (C-nople) resulted in victory by Rome's leader, the church "moved" to where the seat of government rested.