St. Peter of Alexandria (died 311) | EAST

(Updated July 15, 2025)

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Acts

St. Peter of Alexandria, The Genuine Acts of Peter

• The Papacy and the Invincibility of the Church

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[H]e [Meletius] was so hurried on by giving the rein to his madness, that, rending asunder the Catholic Church not only in the cities of Egypt, but even in its villages, he ordained bishops of his own party, nor cared he aught for Peter, nor for Christ, who was in the person of Peter…

In these days information was brought to Maximin about the aforesaid archbishop, that he [St. Peter] was a leader and holding chief place among the Christians; and he, inflamed with his accustomed iniquity, on the instant ordered Peter to be apprehended and cast into prison…

Then a certain virgin dedicated to God, who had her cell adjoining to the tomb of the evangelist, as she was spending the night in prayer, heard a voice from heaven, saying: “Peter was the first of the apostles, Peter is the last of the martyred bishops of Alexandria.”

Letters

St. Peter of Alexandria, Canonical Letter (306)

• The Papacy and the Invincibility of the Church | Can. 9

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(Can. 9)

Thus Peter, the first of the apostles, having been often apprehended, and thrown into prison, and treated with ignominy, was last of all crucified at Rome.