you said "what about the Jews" -- the Jewish religion etc. as an ethno-religio-cultural entity is not an institution -- it is still venerable, but not an institution. If one dives to specifics, the Jewish rabbinate is an institution but post-dates the Church and does not have a continuous history
Stop reading things part-way. That leads to errors in Bible reading as well as history etc.
80 posted on 07/28/2013 9:02:52 AM PDT by Cronos
(Latin presbuteros>Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)