We recently received several emails to make a correction to one of our articles. This person claimed that Eusebius was the Father of Church History according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, not one of the Church Fathers as we stated.

This is what we had stated in our article: "We discovered in their Encyclopedia that the father of the Catholic church is not the Apostle Peter but Eusebius of Caesarea (c A.D. 260 -c. 340).. Another interesting discovery was that Pope Pius XII in 1950 proclaimed the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary a doctrine of the Faith, that we know is not biblical."
We took another look to make sure that the article was correct since we no more wish to lead anyone astray than the writer of these emails.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, published in 1991, addresses the Eusebians on page 374. "People who take their name from Eusebius of Nicomedia (d. A.D. 342), who converted them from paganism to Arian Christianity. Although Eusebius accepted the anti-Arian creed of the Council of Nicaea (325), he refused to recognize the council's excommunication of Arius, who had appealed personally to Eusebius for help. That same year, the Emperor Constantine deposed and banished Eusebius, presumably for his support of Arius.
Within two years, however, the two were reconciled, and Eusebius who administered Constantne's deathbed baptism. Constantine's heir, Constantius II, appointed Eusebius as bishop of Constantinople."
Since this does not clear up the picture enough, we need to go another step and look at what the Encyclopedia has to say about the Fathers of the Church (also Apostolic Fathers) page 399.
"Those towering intellects of the early centuries of the Church, whose writings, sermons and holy lives influenced dramatically the definition, defense and propagation of the Faith. As a precise group in Church history, they are noted for their antiquity (the last of the Western Fathers being Gregory the Great, who died in A.D. 604, and the last in the East considered John Damascene, who died in 749, erudition, orthodoxy and personal sanctity Most scholars delineate the following groupings: the Apostolic Fathers, such as Pope St. Clement I (d.97), who lived with or in the shadow of the Apostles (to the last half of the second century); those of the second and third centuries as Apologists, such as Justin Martyr, who presented the doctrines of the Faith with cogency and clarity; and the "golden age" of the fourth and fifth centuries, with the presence of men such as Basil (d. 379), Gregory Nazianzen (d. 390), John Chrysostom (d. 407), Athanasius (d. 373), all from the Greek Church; and Ambrose (d. 397), Jerome (d. 420) amd Augustine (d. 430) of the Latin Church.
The study of the Fathers, perennially urged by the Church, is called Patristics or Patrology."
Isn't it peculiar that the Apostle Peter is not named among these Apostolic Fathers? One would think since the Roman Catholic Church names the Apostle as the first Pope he would fall into the category of Apostolic Fathers. We know the reason for that. There is documentation that the Apostle was ever the first Pope. William Steuart McBirnie, PhD tracked all twelve Apostle's lives and deaths. On page 68 he writes: "Perhaps we can get a realistic impression about St. Peter's final days in Rome from Jowett: "Maliciously condemned, Peter was cast into the horrible, fetid prison of the Mamertine. There, for nine months, in absolute darkness, he endured monstrous torture manacled to a post. Never before or since has there been a dungeon of equal horror. Historians write of it as being the most fearsome on the brutal agenda of mankind. Over three thousand years old, it is probably the oldest torture chamber extant, the oldest remaining monument of bestiality of ancient Rome, a bleak testimony to its barbaric inhumanity steeped in Christian tragedy and the agony of thousands of its murdered victim. It can be seen to this day, with the dungeon and the pillar to which Peter was bound in chains. It reminds us who live so securely today what the soldiers of Christ suffered so we may be quickened the better to appreciate the substance of our Christian heritage, which is absolutely not Roman Catholicism.
Since our discussion so far has not mentioned the rest of the Church Fathers we need to go yet another step into the history and see what the word Patrology refers to. This word Patrology refers to the other group of Church Fathers not considered Apostles but yet Church Fathers.
On page 732, Patrology, otherwise known as patristics, this is the study of the Christian writers of antiquity who were accepted as orthodox or within the Great Church during their lives. The period ends with Isidore of Seville in the West (d.636) and with John of Damscus in the East (d.749). These writers are called the Church Fathers, and patrology studies the content of their thought. Patristic philosophy and theology were forn from the creative intersections of Christianity, with its roots in Judaism and a biblical idiom, and Greek thought, especially Platonism."
Well now here we have philosophy and Christianity become intermingled with each other. Is it any wonder the Roman Catholic Church's traditions do not even resemble the Bible today. When one lays Biblical concepts next to Roman Catholics traditions they do not coincide. Catholicism has become a pagan movement with many deceived, deluded members to the tune of over a billion.
"Some of the better known Fathers in the East include Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, Evagrius Ponticus, Ephrem of Syria, Basil the Great, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ignatius of Antioch, John Chrysostom, Maximus the Confessorm Tatian, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Eusebius of Caesarea and John of Damascus [and more].
Obviously there is no correction necessary. We appreciate the opportunity once again to be able to verify that there is a major problem in Catholicism and we urge Catholics to study the Bible with the Holy Spirit's help instead of RC Bishops and Fathers.

1 John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."