Did Jesus actually found the Catholic Church?

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Many Christians and non Christians dispute that Jesus founded what we know as the Catholic church today. Most point to Jesus “founding” the church, or the body of Christ, but not the institution specifically. Has anyone done any research into the interpretation of this scripture passage (especially the Peter “rock” verses), particularly in regards to the original terminology/language of the words used here. How do we know/defend this?
 
Jesus called the disciples to him, gave them the power of the Holy Spirit and sent them out to preach the Good News. That there is the foundation of the Church.

As an organisation grows you have to “organise” it, what makes sense to one group might not translate to another so you might have disagreements etc. So now you have councils to agree on what the dogma actually means etc.

It grew organically, and under persecution for a long time before it was made legal. It was the only Church and was described as Universal or Catholic (I think it comes from Greek). Christian and Catholic were synonymous. Slowly over time there were break: Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox and then the Reformation. But all split from the Catholic Church.
 
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Has anyone done any research into the interpretation of this scripture passage
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It is not a matter of interpretation of a passage but it is what actually happened. The Apostles went on and built the Church. We have witnesses for the continuity of the Church, we have the early Church Fathers. We do not need to rely on interpretation.
 
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