Did God make it so Peter would be in Rome for strategic reasoning?

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Or was it just a coincedence? Do you think Christianity would even be worldwide if it weren’t for Rome?
 
I don’t think it was a coincidence. Pope Benedict wrote in one of his books (I forget which one) and repeated on a couple occasions the reason that makes the most sense to me. While Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people, Rome was the capital of the whole world. Moving the capital of His people from Jerusalem to Rome signified the universality of the Church, which embraced not just Jews, but Gentiles from all over the world as well.
 
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Or was it just a coincedence? Do you think Christianity would even be worldwide if it weren’t for Rome?
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Everything happened for a reason, it was all part of Gods plan. This is why we should try and not worry as much about the future as God has a plan for the church and each of us. Sorry I drifted a bit from the topic yes Rome was meant to be we’re peter was and where every pope after him was to be.
 
Possibly! As God works, there will be more than one good reason, but God is King also of strategy, so I wouldn’t doubt it. As they say, all roads lead to Rome, backwards, those same roads were bound to take a person to any known inhabited place.
 
Yeah, moving the theological center from Jerusalem to Rome was a signification of the New Covenant spreading to the Gentiles, and it ties in with the prophecies of Daniel. Even post-Roman Empire, Rome’s historicity is a refuge from competing interests in the world, such as when Catholics in the Middle Ages had to suffer the Papacy residing in Avignon under the influence of the French King, and take in mind that Italy as a country is a relatively recent state and for most of post-Roman Empire history that Rome was within its own Papal states, and today is a separate city-state. It’s also a living reminder of the roots of the Church. It is theoretically possible that the Papacy might someday be elsewhere for unavoidable reasons - there is no dogmatically binding reason that the Pope should have to be in Rome - but its location is a constant reminder to the world, saying “Look, our headquarters is not in Moscow, or in London, or in Salt Lake City. It is here, in Rome, since the beginning”.
 
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