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Evidence audit — Roman Petrine succession does not by itself establish universal jurisdiction over all bishops

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_INT_MAT_16_ROMAN_JURISDICTION
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Context Model Dependent

Premises mapped: 2 · Development threads: 2

Curated chronology: v57 curated corpus · Historical Origin Unknown

This profile distinguishes the current Archive evidence chain from historical origin. The earliest loaded witness is not a claim that the idea originated there.

Open complete dependency profile

Chronology boundary: “Earliest in the curated Codex corpus” is not a claim of historical origin. Missing earlier records cannot be treated as evidence that a premise did not exist.
Interpretive Evidence Audit

Later Development · Curated Pass With Limits

Audited target: Roman Petrine succession does not by itself establish universal jurisdiction over all bishops

Inference depth: Multi Step

Original-meaning weight: Later Development

Support review

Textual: {"rating":"REVIEWED","notes":["Direct Matthew 16 wording was separated from added premises."]}

Linguistic: {"rating":"REVIEWED_WHERE_RELEVANT","notes":["Greek claims are limited to demonstrable lexical/grammatical observations; no Aramaic reconstruction is treated as extant wording."]}

Historical Context: {"rating":"SEPARATE_LAYER","notes":["Later doctrinal and patristic evidence is used as reception/development evidence unless independently relevant to original context."]}

Dependencies

Type: LATER_DOCTRINAL_PREMISE

Note: See the v57 dependency profile for explicit premise-by-premise analysis.

Inferential steps

The bishop of Rome uniquely succeeds to Peter’s Petrine office.
That succession entails jurisdiction over every bishop and local church.

Counterevidence review

rejects transfer of local/diocesan governing power to universal primacy

Strongest competing case

See linked serious Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, and patristic formulations where relevant; direct-text claims are not overridden by those labels.

Audit conclusion

Publish with the stated classification and boundaries. Reception records remain separate from original-meaning evidence, and later doctrinal arrows remain visible rather than being folded into Matthew 16.

What this audit does not establish

That Catholic universal jurisdiction is disproved merely because it is doctrinally developed.
That all Orthodox churches formulate primacy identically to Moscow.

What this does not establish

That Catholic universal jurisdiction is disproved merely because it is doctrinally developed.
That all Orthodox churches formulate primacy identically to Moscow.
Release Introduced
v57
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC