Petrinity

The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.

Noun

  1. The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.
    • Acts certainly follows the fortunes of Paul after Peter's release and departure; and the later New Testament shows no marked Petrinity. - 1926, The New American Church Monthly, volume 19, page 228:
    • He says that Peter honoured (decoravit) Alexandria by sending his disciple Mark to be bishop there; he strengthened (firmavit) Antioch by occupying the see himself there for seven years; but he exalted (sublimavit) Rome...
    • The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema. - 2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian...

Origin

From Petrine + -ity.