False.
“...there WERE NO CATHOLICS in the first century.”
False.
Your ignorance is astounding but not surprising. Brainwashing is hard to over come.
This is as bad as the Catholics putting the Old Testament scriptures into order. The only trouble is they already had an order long before any Catholic thought about them.
When you can name me chapter and verse that specifically calls the members of the first century churches CATHOLIC, get back to me.