Rome..St. Peter's Cathedral..St. Peter's Square, named for the "patron" saint of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church, where he was crucified upside down.

I spent more time in Rome than Peter did,  and I was only there a night and a day, on a lay-over on an Air Force flight from Saudi Arabia, after a tour in Iran..1960.

Again, I'll tell you why Peter never set foot in Rome!  

First, he was the primary apostle to the Jews! There weren't that many Jews in Rome!

Now, following the dispersion after the second "temple" was destroyed, where was the greatest concentration of Jews?  BABYLON!  The same address Peter uses in his letters.

"Babylon" is not a euphemism for Rome, as proposed by apologists.  Peter would not have used it. Paul never used it.  Rome was Rome and Babylon was Babylon.

The idea that "Babylon" was actually Rome, in his letters, came about because of  the description of the evil city in Revelation. The way it's described, it could very well be, but  the church in Rome would never have described it this way. It's those outside Rome who would look at it that way later.

This church that Peter set about establishing for Jesus may very well have been flourishing , but whatever happened there is lost to time, or at least, recorded time. The current Christian Church in Iraq could very well be offshoots from the church begun by Peter,  

So, why wasn't this THE church. after all, It was the one on which Jesus proclaimed.  Why? Because, it wasn't long after the demise of the original apostles, that the true message was distorted by Satan and his minions. 

Actually, in the early years of the Christian religion, it would've been Paul's church that would've been considered THE church by God, because He sent His Spirit to Paul.  No others received this attention.  

Secondly, if Peter  was in Rome, why did Paul never mention it?  He referred to him before.

So you ask why would the Roman Catholic Church choose him over Paul, who was most certainly there, where  he was beheaded?

It goes back to what Jesus said in the gospel, that He would build His church on Peter.  And the Roman Catholic Church wants everybody to believe a falsehood, that the church of Jesus is their church.  

The idea then that Peter came to Rome was probably concoted about the time that Paul's chosen leaders there were gone.  About the same time the "cross" took the place of the "fish" as a symbol of the followers of the Christ.   Then Satan introduced his own leaders and called them Popes, while distorting all truths.

This fabrication of Peter's presence gives provenance to their claim that they are the true church.

Nothing could be further from the truth..paulnbob

proof God exists   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnS9Ili3Znc&feature=youtu.be..

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