The word "pope" and also the word "patriarch" (usually applied to bishops in Eastern Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy) both derive from the ancient Greek Fascinating history & commonalities of the word "pope" (derived from the ancient Greek, "páppas") & the NT "pater" (father), used to refer to spiritual fatherhood.
St. Peter the Rock; Hades; Peter & the Keys; Peter's Betrayal & Jesus' Prayer for His Faith; One Church vs. Denominationalism; Baptism in Acts The late Steve Hays was a Calvinist and anti-Catholic writer and apologist. This is one of my many critiques of Hays’ “Catholicism”: a 695-page self-published volume.