Did the Apostle Peter Ever Visit Rome?

 

Jesus’ chief disciple, Peter (also called Simon Peter or Cephas), has been associated with Rome for nearly 2,000 years.

 

● The earliest testimony to the apostle Peter’s presence in Rome is a letter from a Christian deacon named Gaius, written around 170 or 180 C.E.

 

● Gaius tells about the wondrous things in Rome, including something called a tropaion where Peter established a church—in fact, the Church, the Roman Catholic church at the site where St. Peter’s Basilica is today.

 

● The Apocryphal Acts of Peter, recounts many things that Peter did in the city. 

 

● At the end of this text, Peter flees from Roman authorities on the Via Appia where he unexpectedly, Peter meets Jesus. You can still see there a bit of marble pavement that miraculously preserve Jesus’ footprints.

 

● Interestingly, the Bible says nothing about Peter ever traveling to Rome. 

 

Read the BAS blog by Brown University Religious Studies professor Nicola Denzey Lewis and learn much more at --

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/the-apostle-peter-in-rome/

 

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