Chapter 1: Of the institution of the apostolic primacy in

Blessed Peter._

We, therefore, teach and declare that, according to the
testimony of the Gospel, the primacy of jurisdiction was
immediately and directly promised to Blessed Peter the
Apostle, and on him conferred by Christ the Lord. For it had
been said before to Simon; Thou shalt be called Cephas, and
afterwards on occasion of the confession made by him; Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God, it was to Simon alone
that the Lord addressed the words: Blessed art thou, Simon
Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to
thee, but my Father who is in Heaven. And I say to thee that
thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will
give to thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. And whatsoever
thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven,
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth it shall be loosed
also in heaven.
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And it was upon Simon alone that Jesus after His resurrection
bestowed the jurisdiction of Chief Pastor and Ruler over all
His fold in the words: Feed my lambs: feed my sheep. At open
variance with this clear doctrine of Holy Scripture as it has
been ever understood by the Catholic Church are the perverse
opinions of those who, while they distort the form of
government established by Christ the Lord in His Church, deny
that Peter in his single person, preferably to all the other
Apostles, whether taken separately or together, was endowed by
Christ with a true and proper primacy of jurisdiction; or of
those who assert that the same primacy was not bestowed
immediately and directly upon Blessed Peter himself, but upon
the Church, and through the Church on Peter as her Minister.
If anyone, therefore, shall say that Blessed Peter the Apostle
was not appointed the Prince of all the Apostles and the
visible Head of the whole Church Militant; or that the same
directly and immediately received from the same Our Lord Jesus
Christ a Primacy of honour only, and not of true and proper
jurisdiction; let him be anathema.