Today we can see from authentic dates of St. Peter�s movements that he did not go to Rome to start a church.

Acts 8:1�Apostles stayed in Jerusalem...34 A.D.

Acts 8:14�He helped the church at Samaria to get hold of the Holy Ghost�34 A.D�7 yrs.

Acts 10:25�He visited Cornelius�41 A.D. Acts 9:34�He healed Aeneas at Lydda�41 A.D.

Acts 9:36�He raised Dorcas at Joppa�41 A.D�3 yrs.

Acts 12:11�He returned to Jerusalem from Joppa and was put in prison�44 A.D. 7 yrs.

Acts 15:7�He was at the first council in Jerusalem 51 A.D�9 yrs.

I Pet. 5:13�He went to Babylon on the Euphrates�60 A.D.

When did he go to Rome?

If Peter had gone to Rome 41 A.D. according to Catholic historians, he got out quickly-because Claudius� edict expelled all Jews from Rome and Peter was no exception. Claudius reigned 13 years.

All these proven dates conflict with Rome�s claims that in 41-67 A.D. St. Peter was the first Pope of Rome. Acts 8:1 says all except Apostles left Jerusalem-34 A.D.

We ask ourselves, "Who, then, did start the first church at Rome?" The earliest truthful martyrologies of Rome were suppressed. One historian states that before the years of Hippolytus and Origen the lists of martyred bishops of Rome do not include the names of St. Peter nor St. Paul. We know St. Paul did go to Rome according to the Scriptures, but there is no record of his having been martyred in Rome as the Roman fables tell. Those who were martyrs in Rome were listed by Eusebius. This list was tampered with by later popes and emperors and the name of St. Peter was forged as first pope. All the writings of men like Origen who died about 235 A.D. including the writings of Tertullian and Hippolytus of the same age were sought for by later popes who had the emperors burn them. All allusions to the truth that St. Peter was not the first pope of Rome were crushed. When Theodoret�s Ecclesiastical History came out, it had �Three Chapters� that the popes of Rome wanted to get their hands on. It told the truth about the beginnings of the first Roman church and St. Peter�s name was not given as the first Bishop of Rome. All the emperors from Honorius, including Justinian hunted for these writings that would expose and nullify Rome�s claim of supremacy.

Thousands were killed and banished if they were caught with these exposing writings.

Cunning fables were written making St. Peter crucified with his head down. This created sympathy that his the truth. This fable and others like it swept over the nation and in a few generations this fable - "Quo Vaudis" - became a true fact.

The only claim of the first Roman church that St. Peter was ever in Rome is substantiated by the Roman statement that when St. Peter said he was in Babylon, he meant Rome. The Word of God says that those who make or love a lie shall never get into heaven. Rev. 22:15.

So St. Peter would never have made a lie by calling Rome �Babylon� when he was really in Babylon on the Euphrates, and not Babylon (Figuratively Rome). Douay footnote for I Peter v. 13. "Cryptic names of cities were never used in the New Testament Epistles." They were used in the prophecy of Revelation as they were in many of the Old Testament prophecies. The church of Rome was first started by such lovely Apostles as Andronicus and Junia and Priscilla and Aquilla who were expelled in 41 A.D. They became the heads of the second church of Rome spoken of in the sixteenth chapter of the book of Romans. St. Paul was writing to the group of Christians who returned to Rome after Claudius died. These who had returned to Rome wanted to again mother the first group they had started. But this paganizing flock would have nothing to do with the Christian Jews mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of Romans.

This lovely group formed the second church of Rome, and we read their names in the last chapter of the book of Romans. They were probably the brethren mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the passage that describes St. Paul�s arrival in Italy from (Caesarea) Rome Judea - Acts 28:15.