Saint Peter

====New Testament accounts====
There is no obvious biblical evidence that Peter was ever in Rome, but the first epistle of Peter does mention that "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son."<ref name="bibleverse|1 Peter|5:13">{{bibleverse|1 Peter|5:13}}</ref> It is not certain whether this refers to the actual Babylon or to Rome, for which Babylon was a common nickname at the time, or to the Jewish diaspora in general, as a recent theory has proposed.<ref name="Zwierlein review"/><ref name=Vision/>

Paul's [[Epistle to the Romans]], written about AD 57,<ref name="Franzen, p.26">Franzen, ''A Concise History of the Church''. p. 16</ref> greets some fifty people in Rome by name,<ref name="bibleverse||Romans|16">{{bibleverse||Romans|16}}</ref> but not Peter [[Incident at Antioch|whom he knew]]. There is also no mention of Peter in Rome later during Paul's two-year stay there in Acts 28, about AD 60–62. With regards to the latter, Acts 28 does not specifically mention any of Paul's visitors.