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No, Saint Peter was always considered as the leader of the Church, no matter where he was at the time. He eventually ended up in Rome and was considered the Bishop of Rome as well as the leader of the Church. Eventually the title of pope was conferred on his successors.
The pope is the Bishop of Rome.
Saint Peter, in addition to being the Pope (the earthly leader of the entire Church), was the bishop (the senior pastor) of the Christian Church in Rome.
He is the bishop of the diocese of Rome.
The pope is the bishop of Rome and pope, the earthly head of the Catholic Church.
A bishop of Rome is another term for the Pope - the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
A:Scholars say that the role of bishop arose in the Christian Church in the second century.
A Christian Bishop Is A Person Who Severe God All The Time. The Bishop Sevres The Church Also.
The Bishop of Rome is the Pope. Catholics, both Latin and Eastern, believe that the Bishop of Rome is the spiritual leader of the Church (the Head of the Church is Christ) and is thus responsible for preserving unity.
AnswerEven from the days of the apostle Paul, Rome seems to have been an important centre of Christianity. In the fourth century, Emperor Constantine made the himself, and his successors, the de facto leader of the Christian Church, with the bishop of Rome as one of the five Metropolitans, or senior bishops of the Church. The loss to Christianity of Carthage in northern Africa, and the Great Schism of 1054, left the bishop of Rome, known in the West as the pope, as the supreme leader of the Catholic Church.
The Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the church of the Bishop of Rome, is located in Rome.