Pope Peter II

This is a question aimed mainly at Protestants, however everyone is ofcourse invited to share their opinion. 🙂

Papal Protocol has meant no-one has ever taken upon the name Peter when they become Pope, the explanation being that its out of respect for the First Pope.

However, Protestant Churches do not recognize St. Peter as ever being Pope, so should a man be elected Pope and choose his name as Peter, would they object to him being styled Peter II? (Which is what he would be named).

Also, would anyone else out there say that he isn't Peter II and should be Peter I?

Ill vote but not comment till later dude...need to think on it..lol..but just to clarify my position my vote would most certainly be other response..and will be...no doubt...lol

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
This is a question aimed mainly at Protestants, however everyone is ofcourse invited to share their opinion. 🙂

Papal Protocol has meant no-one has ever taken upon the name Peter when they become Pope, the explanation being that its out of respect for the First Pope.

However, Protestant Churches do not recognize St. Peter as ever being Pope, so should a man be elected Pope and choose his name as Peter, would they object to him being styled Peter II? (Which is what he would be named).

Also, would anyone else out there say that he isn't Peter II and should be Peter I?

Well if the next pope took the name Peter; we'd have a lot more to worry about than his name. It would be the fulfillment of the prophesy of St. Malachai.

Originally posted by Transfinitum
Well if the next pope took the name Peter; we'd have a lot more to worry about than his name. It would be the fulfillment of the prophesy of St. Malachai.

I know to what you refer and wasn't really wanting the thread to go in that direction...atleast not yet...

Besides, Peter Romanus might not have the papal name Peter...

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
I know to what you refer and wasn't really wanting the thread to go in that direction...atleast not yet...

Besides, Peter Romanus might not have the papal name Peter...

Perhaps, but it is the only pope which does have a specific name associated to him; so I assume he would take Peter II.

Just my personal opinion.

But for a protestant, every pope is invalid, so why bother with the naming. To them they are all false.

I would not care one way or the other.

Originally posted by Transfinitum
Perhaps, but it is the only pope which does have a specific name associated to him; so I assume he would take Peter II.

Just my personal opinion.

But for a protestant, every pope is invalid, so why bother with the naming. To them they are all false.

That may be, but they can be polite and accept the chosen names- however I don't think it would be the same with Peter...

A similar thing happened in Scotland when Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne, the Scots complained because there has never been a Queen Elizabeth of Scotland before, thus she should be Elizabeth I...

I don't know. I'll check it out and come back to post later on.

Actually, Peter's name as a Pope has never been chosen out of respect to the first Pope. Why would it be used now?

We should close the possibility by just refusing that a Pope is named Peter something... especially if people beleive the prophesy of St. Malachai.

Originally posted by Mandos
Actually, Peter's name as a Pope has never been chosen out of respect to the first Pope. Why would it be used now?

We should close the possibility by just refusing that a Pope is named Peter something... especially if people beleive the prophesy of St. Malachai.

We can still ask hypothetical questions, assuming there is a Peter. Would protestants recognize him as Peter II?

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
We can still ask hypothetical questions, assuming there is a Peter. Would protestants recognize him as Peter II?

Probably not, since they don't beleive that Peter was a Pope. The Christian catholics however, will refuse the name Peter. In the end, there would probably be an agreement on the title Peter 2. I don't know why, I just feel this way.

I didn't think Protestants recognized the authority of the pope...

But yes, I can see how, to them, it might be wrong to call him "II" in protestant eyes, but not more wrong than the pope is inherently to them...

Hey! Grand_Moff_Gav What if he called himself Peter Paul? 😆

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
This is a question aimed mainly at Protestants, however everyone is ofcourse invited to share their opinion. 🙂

Papal Protocol has meant no-one has ever taken upon the name Peter when they become Pope, the explanation being that its out of respect for the First Pope.

However, Protestant Churches do not recognize St. Peter as ever being Pope, so should a man be elected Pope and choose his name as Peter, would they object to him being styled Peter II? (Which is what he would be named).

Also, would anyone else out there say that he isn't Peter II and should be Peter I?

Originally posted by Quark_666
I can't see why a Protestant would care. Then again, I can't imagine most Catholics would care either.

Most Catholics would agree that Peter II would be an applicable name, since Peter was the first pope.

The only concern that catholics have is that if the pope after Benedict chooses that name; for a private revelation by St. Malachai predicted that the next pope would take the name Petrus Romanus (Peter of Rome) and during his reign the apocalypse would occur. So that would be the only Catholic concern.

And Gav, don't expect too much from protestants when it comes to popes; they tend to have a bad history 😉

Why would Protestant's care?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Why would Protestant's care?

Because they get quite hot under the color at the idea of St. Peter being Pope.

Pope Peter..........hahahahahaha

Originally posted by Transfinitum
Most Catholics would agree that Peter II would be an applicable name, since Peter was the first pope.

The only concern that catholics have is that if the pope after Benedict chooses that name; for a private revelation by St. Malachai predicted that the next pope would take the name Petrus Romanus (Peter of Rome) and during his reign the apocalypse would occur. So that would be the only Catholic concern.

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