Petrinity

English

Etymology

Petrine +‎ -ity

Noun

Petrinity (uncountable)

1. (Christianity, rare) The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.
   • 1926, The New American Church Monthly‎^[1], volume 19, page 228:

     Acts certainly follows the fortunes of Paul after Peter's release and departure; and the later New Testament shows no marked Petrinity.

   • 1980, Jeffrey Richards, Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great, →ISBN, page 65:

     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 where he spent his later days and died. The clear implication is that Rome remains pre-eminent even in Petrinity.

   • 2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform”, in A Companion to the Medieval Papacy, →ISBN, page 58:

     The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.