The Joys of Catholicism

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Surely the oxymoronic Roman Catholicism didn't start until there was widespread disagreement. The popes appear to have heightened that disagreement over the years.

Before then it was just called the Church.

When did the head of "the Church" begin calling himself "the Bishop of Rome"? Before then, did he just call himself "the Bishop"?

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I Googled "why don't romanists like to be called roman catholics". One of the pages given by the search was a Quora thread, Some Roman Catholics don't like to be called Roman. Why?

On that page, one Romanist wrote:

Because Roman applies to those from Rome. Unless you are actually Roman, nobody should be calling you Roman. In ecclesial contexts, this can apply to the diocese or province of Rome. Far more follow the Roman Rite, but that does not make them “Roman”.

I wonder if he's going to start also complaining that people from Central America and South America are called "Latin-American", despite the fact that they are not from anywhere near Latium.