Primacy of Peter

An imaginative depiction of "Christ handing the Keys of Heaven to the Apostle Peter" as written in Matthew 16:18, by Pietro Perugino (1481–82)

The primacy of Peter, also known as Petrine primacy (from the Latin: Petrus, lit. 'Peter'), is the position of preeminence that is attributed to Peter among the Twelve Apostles of Christianity.

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