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John Meyendorff menjelaskannya sebagai berikut:
{{quote|Tradisi patristis yang terang-benderang melihat suksesi Petrus di dalam pelayanan uskup. Doktrin Santo Siprianus Uskup Kartago yang mengatakan bahwa "Takhta Petrus" itu wujud di dalam setiap Gereja lokal, tidak semata-mata di Roma, sudah umum diketahui orang. Doktrin ini juga didapati di Timur, di kalangan yang sudah barang tentu tidak pernah membaca ''De unitate ecclesia''-nya Siprianus, tetapi toh mengusung gagasan utama yang sama, dan oleh karena itu menjadi saksi bahwa doktrin ini adalah bagian dari tradisi katolik Gereja. Santo Gregorius Uskup Nisa misalnya, menegaskan bahwa Kristus "melalui Petrus memberi para uskup kunci marwah surgawi," dan penulis risalah ''Areopagitikos'', di dalam uraiannya mengenai "para hierarkus" Gereja, serta-merta mengacu kepada citra Santo Petrus. Telaah cermat terhadap kesusastraan gerejawi Timur maupun Barat, dari milenium pertama, termasuk dokumen-dokumen seperti riwayat-riwayat hidup orang kudus, sudah barang tentu akan memperlihatkan bahwa tradisi ini adalah tradisi yang teguh; dan memang sudah menjadi bagian dari inti sari eklesiologi Kristen untuk memandang uskup lokal mana pun sebagai pengajar kawanan dombanya dan oleh karena itu untuk menggenapi secara sakramental, melalui suksesi apostolik, jabatan orang percaya sejati yang pertama, Petrus. ...Meskipun demikian ada suksesi yang lain, yang juga diakui para teolog Bizantin, tetapi hanya pada taraf analogi yang wujud antara majelis para rasul dan majelis para uskup, suksesi yang kedua ini ditentukan oleh kebutuhan akan tertib hidup bergereja. Batas-batasnya ditentukan oleh Konsilikonsili-Konsilikonsili, dan – menurut kebiasaanamalan Bizantin – oleh "kaisar-kaisar yang benar-benar saleh."|''The Primacy of Peter'', hlm. 89|title=|source=}}<!--
TheGagasan bahwa notion that many [[Episcopal see|Sees]] were 'of Peter' had also once been held in the West. [[Pope Gregory I]] states that:
{{quote|Your most sweet Holiness hassudah berbicara banyak berbicarahas spoken much in your letter to me about the chair of Saint Peter, Prince of the apostles, saying that he himself now sits on it in the persons of his successors. ...Wherefore though there are many apostles, yet with regard to the principality itself the See of the Prince of the apostles alone has grown strong in authority, which in three places is the See of one. ...He himself stablished (sic) the See in which, though he was to leave it, he sat for seven years. Since then it is the See of one, and one See, over which by Divine authority three bishops now preside, whatever good I hear of you, this I impute to myself.<ref>''To Eulogius, Bishop of Alexandria''Book VII, Epistle XL</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}
However, the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] sends a delegation each year to Rome to participate in the celebration of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
{{quote|Of the church of Rome, Linus the son of Claudia was the first, ordained by Paul; and Clemens (Clement), after Linus' death, the second, ordained by me Peter.<ref>''Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions'', Book 7, Chapter XLVI – "Who Were They that the Holy Apostles Sent and Ordained?"</ref>}}
=== 'Kunci' dan 'batu karang' tidak semata-mata berkaitan dengan Petrus ===
==='Keys' and 'rock' not exclusive to Peter===
Para teolog [[EasternGereja OrthodoxOrtodoks ChurchTimur|EasternOrtodoks OrthodoxTimur]] theologianssepakat agreebahwa thatdi indalam nas MatthewMatius 16:18,<ref>{{bibleverse|MatthewAlkitab|Matius 16:18}}</ref> agaknya "rockbatu karang" isadalah asebutan likelykepada referencediri toPetrus Peterlantaran personally since the very namenama "PeterPetrus" meansberarti "rockbatu karang".<ref>{{cite book|title="Peter's Primacy in the New Testament and the Early Tradition" in The Primacy of Peter|author=Veselin Kesich|year=1992|publisher=St.Penerbit Vladimir'sSeminari SeminarySanto PressVladimirus|pages= 47–48}}</ref> HoweverMeskipun demikian, Matthewnas Matius 18:18<ref>{{bibleverse|MatthewAlkitab|Matius 18:18}}</ref> impliesmenyiratkan thatbahwa therasul-rasul otherlain Apostlespun werediberi givenkuasa theyang same powerssama. AlthoughSekalipun the wordkata ''keyskunci'' istidak explicitlymuncul absentsecara fromtertulis thisdi laterdalam verseayat aini, number ofsejumlah [[ChurchBapa FathersGereja]] recognisedberanggapan thatbahwa the meaning ofmakna ''keyskunci'' istersirat implicitlydi theredalamnya, anddan thatbahwasanya thesegenap restGereja ofmemegang the church has thekunci keystersebut:
{{quote|What, now, (has this to do) with the Church, and your (church), indeed, Psychic? For, in accordance with the person of Peter, it is to spiritual men that this power will correspondingly appertain, either to an apostle or else to a prophet.<ref>''On Modesty''. Book VII. Chapter XXI</ref>|author=[[Tertullian]]|title=|source=}}
{{quote|Come now, you who would indulge a better curiosity, if you would apply it to the business of your salvation, run over the apostolic churches, in which the very thrones of the apostles are still pre-eminent in their places, in which their own authentic writings are read, uttering the voice and representing the face of each of them severally. Achaia is very near you, (in which) you find Corinth. Since you are not far from Macedonia, you have Philippi; (and there too) you have the Thessalonians. Since you are able to cross to Asia, you get Ephesus. Since, moreover, you are close upon Italy, you have Rome, from which there comes even into our own hands the very authority (of apostles themselves). How happy is its church, on which apostles poured forth all their doctrine along with their blood! where Peter endures a passion like his Lord's! where Paul wins his crown in a death like John's where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile!<ref>''The Prescription Against Heretics'': Chapter XXXVI.-The Apostolic Churches the Voice of the Apostles. Let the Heretics Examine Their Apostolic Claims, in Each Case, Indisputable. The Church of Rome Doubly Apostolic; Its Early Eminence and Excellence. Heresy, as Perverting the Truth, is Connected Therewith</ref>|author=Tertullian}}
{{quote|WasAdakah anythingsesuatu withheldyang fromlepas thedari knowledgepengetahuan of PeterPetrus, whoyang is calleddisebut "the rock on whichbatu thekarang churchtempat shouldjemaat beharus builtdidirikan," whoyang alsojuga obtainedberoleh "thekunci keysKerajaan of the kingdom of heavenSurga," withdengan thekuasa power"melepaskan ofdan "loosingmengikat anddi bindingdalam insurga heavendan anddi onmuka earthbumi?" WasAdakah anything,pula again,sesuatu yang concealedtersembunyi fromdari JohnYohanes, themurid Lord'sterkasih most beloved discipleTuhan, whoyang usedbiasa tobersandar leandi ondada-Nya, Hisyang breastkepadanya tosaja whomTuhan alonetunjukan thebahwa LordYudaslah pointedsi Judaspengkhianat out as the traitoritu, whomyang HeIa commendedpasrahkan tokepada MaryMaria assebagai aputra sonpengganti in His own steaddiri-Nya?<ref>''ThePetunjuk PrescriptionMelawan AgainstAhli HereticsBidat'':Chapter Bab XXII.-Attempt to Invalidate This Rule of Faith Rebutted. The Apostles Safe Transmitters of the Truth. Sufficiently Taught at First, and Faithful in the Transmission.</ref>}}
{{quote|AsIbarat aseorang kingraja sendingyang forthmengutus governorsraja-raja muda, givesmemberikan powerkuasa tountuk castmemenjarakan intodan prisonmelepaskan anddari to deliver from itpenjara, sodemikianlah indengan sendingmengutus these forthmereka, ChristKristus investethmemperlengkapi themmereka withdengan thekuasa sameyang powersama.<ref>"OnIhwal theInjil GospelYohanes" of John"seputar Onnas JohnYohanes xx. 10, 11. (Homily LXXXVI)</ref>|author=JohnYohanes ChrysostomKrisostomus}}
{{quote|... thoughsekalipun Hesudah hasIa delegatedlimpahkan theurusan carepemiaraan ofdomba-Nya Hiskepada sheepbanyak to many shepherdsgembala, yettidaklah HeIa hassendiri notmembengkalaikan Himselfurusan abandonedpengampuan thekawanan guardianshipdomba ofyang HisIa beloved flockkasihi.<ref>''SermonKhotbah III''. (OnIhwal HisHari BirthdayHadinya, III: Delivered on theDisampaikan Anniversarypada ofHari HisJumenengan ElevationSri toPaus theLeo PontificateI, ChapterBab II)</ref>|author=[[PopePaus Leo I]]}} -->
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