Who is the Holy Father? Is it God or is it the Pope in Rome
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“Who truly is your Holy Father?” A Christian’s relationship with the Holy Father is crucial. Thus, Jesus Christ prayed, “Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.” Nevertheless, the Vatican both teaches a different gospel and claims a successive chain of 266 “holy fathers,” or popes.