arth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth it shall be loosed in Heaven."
             Jesus also gave a guarantee of sort to Peter and all Popes after in Luke 22:32. Christ says to Peter, "I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail," (Knox). In addition to these Biblical passages, tradition carried further prestige on to Rome. It was a city of martyrs; Peter himself was martyred there in Rome.
             The East, on the other hand, was a "... hotbed of heresy..."(Knox). Cities such as Constantinople and Alexandria were permanently tainted by the fact , considering that some of their own bishops had been leading figures in those heresies. No heresy, however, had ever flourished at Rome.
             Rome, over time , was gradually becoming the arbiter of Church authority and theology. By the early part of the 5th century it was general knowledge that any bishop accused of heresy or wrongdoing could take his case to the Bishop of Rome. Thi
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