To note the following dates is enough to explode the pretensions of Rome. "We first read of the title of universal Bishop (at Rome) A.D. 606; of the canonical authority of the Apocrypha, and Vulgate, and traditions as articles of faith, at the Council of Trent, in the 16th century, of the use of the Latin tongue in worship to the exclusion of the vernacular tongue in the 7th century (666). In the 11th, the Lord's Supper was mutilated by the establishment of communion in one kind. In the 12th the doctrine of Seven Sacraments was first taught. The doctrines of the meritorious virtue of penance, of purgatory, and prayers for the dead, date no earlier than the 7th century, and were not positively affirmed till the year 1140. The power of granting indulgences was not claimed by the popes till the 12th century. Auricular confession was first enjoined by the 4th Lateran Council in the 13th century. The celibacy of the clergy, as universal and compulsory, was ordained at the end of the 4th century and was confirmed by Gregory VII at the end of the 11th " (The Bible Hand-Book. Joseph Angus, D.D., pp. 208, 209).
Certainly none of these things were known or practiced in the apostolic age. If these things were divinely accredited, the Apostles, who knew our Lord so intimately, would have surely known about them.