What Catholics seem to be ignorant of is the fact that, Jesus was a Jew, not a Catholic, all the apostles were Jews, not Catholic, all the first early believers were Jews, not Catholic, early Gentile converts were pagan, not Catholic! All preached to Samaritans were not Catholic!

 What Catholics seem to be ignorant of is the fact that, Jesus was a Jew, not a Catholic, all the apostles were Jews, not Catholic, all the first early believers were Jews, not Catholic, early Gentile converts were pagan, not Catholic! All preached to Samaritans were not Catholic!

Up until the fall of the second temple (70 ce) there were no Catholics or Catholic church; for Catholics to argue otherwise is a delusion and not a fact of early NT history!

There were no Popes or Bishops or even a tiered clergy class, responsible men in the congregations were called "Presubteros and Episcopus" (Older man (spiritually mature) and Overseer).

There was no "Pontifex Maximus" that title was reserved exclusively for all Roman Emperors from the time of Augustus down to the time of Gratain in the 4th century ce, the latter Emperor throwing out that PAGAN title as not befitting a Christian Emperor, but the ambitious bishop of Rom at th time, Damasus had no qualms in appropriating the title "Pontifex Maximus" for himself, now the Roman Catholic church had its first "Pope" in the traditional sense!

All Catholic Arch Bishops had control over what is called a "See" a region, such as Corinth, Jerusalem, Antioch, Athens and so on, each carried the titel "Papa" or "Pope", likewise the bishop of Rome, until Damasus changed things, now Rome was the big boy and flexed its power by the aid of the Political State! No Bishop or Arch Bishop was above another, all were of equal status!