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Kasz216 said:

Well

A) It does.  Note how it mentions "Catholic" Claims having been settled.  The term Catholic was used to refer to the Church as early as like, the year 100 something.

B) Those are just titles for the Catholic Church... The Bishop of Rome... aka The Pope, was considered the "head" of Christianity before the First council of Nicaea.  He worked as the "head" of the three main Bishops of Rome, Antioch... and Alexandria I want to say.

C) The Bishop of Rome is also known as the Pope. 

A. The term wasn't used in the sense you think it was. The term means 'all-embracing', and was originally used as an adjective to stress the universality of the Christian Church (unlike Judaism for example, anybody was welcomed to become a Christian; there were no ethnical constraints to conversion). It was later adopted by the Western Church as part of their official name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic#History_of_ecclesiastical_use_of_.22catholic.22

B. Obviously that is the Catholic POV. Non-Catholics clearly disagree with this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea#The_Role_of_the_Bishop_of_Rome

The Bishop of Rome was never seen as the head of the Christian Church.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/ch_orthodox_docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20071013_documento-ravenna_en.html

Check item #41. While the bishop of Rome was seen as protos, that didn't mean that he was the head of the Church, or that he had the prerogatives that the Pope currently has in the Catholic Church.