Except that it's not and the papacy has always been part of the Church since the beginning with Saint Peter the first Pope. It's only been the heretics and schismatics who reject the office of the pope. First the Eastern Church decided they didn't want to follow the pope anymore and fractured off in early 1000s. Then the protestants revolution of the 16th century who totally rejected the institution of the Church itself that Christ created and fractured into thousands of heretical sects and counting.
Except that it's not and the papacy has always been part of the Church since the beginning with Saint Peter the first Pope. It's only been the heretics and schismatics who reject the office of the pope. First the Eastern Church decided they didn't want to follow the pope anymore and fractured off in early 1000s. Then the protestants revolution of the 16th century who totally rejected the institution of the Church itself that Christ created and fractured into thousands of heretical sects and counting.
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