On the primacy of Saint Peter, the first Pope
By Saint Augustine, Early Church Father and Doctor of the Catholic Church (b. A.D. 13 November 354 – d. A.D. 28 August 430)
"I am held in the communion of the Catholic Church by ... the succession of priests from the very chair of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, committed His sheep to be fed (Tenet me ab ipsa sede Petri Apostoli, cut pascendas oves post resurrectionem Dominus commendavit, successio sacerdotum)” (Contra Ep. Fundam Manich., n. 5). "Peter was made the Pastor of the Church, as Moses was made the Ruler of the Jewish people" (Contra Faust., lib. xxii. c. 70; cf. Serm. xlvi. n. 30; Serm. ccxcv. nn. 2, 4).
The Early Church Fathers On The Papacy
"But since it would take too long to set out here the successions of all the churches, we shall turn to that great, ancient and universally known church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles Peter and Paul, and we shall show that the tradition it has received of the apostles and the faith that it preaches to men has come down to our time through the regular succession of its bishops; and thus we shall confute all those who, in whatever way, whether by self-complacency, vainglory, blindness or error, enter into unauthorized assemblies. For it is with this Roman church, by reason of its more powerful pre-eminence that every other church, that is to say all the faithful everywhere, ought to agree, inasmuch as in this church the apostolic tradition has been preserved continuously by those who come from everywhere." (Saint Irenaeus. "Against All Heresies," c. AD 180)
"On him (Peter) He [Jesus] builds the Church, and to him He gives the command to feed the sheep, and although He assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet He founded a single chair (cathedra), and He established by His own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity.... If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he (should) desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?" (Saint Cyprian Of Carthage. "On the Unity of the Catholic Church," AD 251)
Please read: "St. Peter, the Rock, the Keys, and the Primacy of Rome in the Early Church" By BiblicalCatholic http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/PeterRockKeysPrimacyRome.htm
Dr. Scott Hahn on the Papacy http://web.archive.org/web/20150215004852/https://catholic-pages.com/pope/hahn.asp
VIDEOS
Biblical basis for the Papacyhttps://youtu.be/J5xBOrr0ruw
The Most Underrated Argument for the Papacy (Trent Horn and Joe Heschmeyer) https://youtu.be/xm2KaYQyn8Q
Dr. Scott Hahn's (a former anti-Catholic minister) excellent talk on the Papacy:
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