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    Did the early church fathers believe in the papacy in the 1st century or did it develop?

    The papacy is a distinct doctrine of the Catholic Church and is rejected by both protestants and Orthodox christians, but did any of the early church fathers Fromm the 1st century affirm the papacy or that the bishop of Rome had primacy? (I know the word papacy didn't come along until a lot...
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