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

A reusable research record with provenance and relationships kept separate from the presentation layer.

INTERPRETIVE_CLAIMINT_MAT_16_ROMAN_JURISDICTION

Evidence state: later development

Statement layerBerean synthesis
ConfidenceModerate
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed
Claim

A Roman successor claim and a universal-jurisdiction claim are distinct premises. To infer jurisdiction over every bishop/church, evidence must establish not only succession but the scope and nature of the successor’s authority. v57 therefore keeps those arrows separate.

Interpretive Evidence Audit

Later Development · Curated Pass With Limits

Inference depth: Multi Step · Original-meaning weight: Later Development

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.

Open complete evidence audit

Quality-gate boundary: This audit measures evidentiary support and inferential distance. It does not make the Codex infallible or convert scholar/tradition authority into evidence.
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.

Supporting evidence

Id: INT_MAT_16_ROMAN_SUCCESSION

Role: prior dependency

Source Id: SRC_VATICAN_I_PASTOR_AETERNUS

Role: explicit universal-jurisdiction formulation

Source Id: SRC_MOSPAT_2013_PRIMACY

Role: serious Orthodox counter-formulation

Counterevidence / challenges

Source Id: SRC_MOSPAT_2013_PRIMACY

Note: rejects transfer of local/diocesan governing power to universal primacy

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
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Evidence Classification
later development
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC