- Peter was made the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and all Popes claim their linage from him and the other apostles.
- Whereas evangelical Protestants believe the Bible is the ultimate test of all truth, Roman Catholics believe the Church determines what is true and what is not.
- ...Roman Catholic Church has been applied to the whole church in the English language since the Protestant Reformation in the late 16th century.[37] Further, some.
- Old Catholicism is a term used to refer to a group of independent churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.
- The Roman Catholic Church is the world's second largest religious body after Sunni Islam,[2] and the largest Christian denomination in the world,[3]...
- The particular Churches within the Roman Catholic Church, whether rites or dioceses, are seen as not simply branches or sections of a larger body.
- The Roman Catholic Church has many Rites (branches) [2] The Latin Rite is directly under the Pope.
- The fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Catholic Church are really two branches of the same story, as the power was transferred from one entity to the other.
- The Roman Catholic church based in the Vatican and led by the Pope, is the largest of all branches of Christianity, with about 1.4 billion followers worldwide.
- The leader of the Roman Catholic Church and successor of Jesus Christ on Earth is the Pope. ... Missionaries travelled to other continents to spread Catholicism.
