The Church at Rome, who started it?

[Catholic Christian]

Who is responsible for starting the Church at Rome?

Tradition has it that Peter did, but is that so? Is there any account or referrences to support Peter ever having been there? Who really started it?

St Irenaeus, (Against Heresies, 3, 3, 3 [A.D. 189]).

"The blessed apostles [Peter and Paul], having founded and built up the church [of Rome], they handed over the office of the episcopate to Linus. Paul makes mention of this Linus in the letter to Timothy [2 Tim. 4:21]. To him succeeded Anacletus, and after him, in the third place from the apostles, Clement was chosen for the episcopate. He had seen the blessed apostles and was acquainted with them. It might be said that he still heard the echoes of the preaching of the apostles and had their traditions before his eyes. And not only he, for there were many still remaining who had been instructed by the apostles. In the time of Clement, no small dissension having arisen among the brethren in Corinth, the church in Rome sent a very strong letter to the Corinthians, exhorting them to peace and renewing their faith. ... To this Clement, Evaristus succeeded . . . and now, in the twelfth place after the apostles, the lot of the episcopate [of Rome] has fallen to Eleutherius. In this order, and by the teaching of the apostles handed down in the Church, the preaching of the truth has come down to us".

LINK:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Peter_Roman_Residency.asp

 

[Ormly]

The doctrine of the Real Presence confirms that in the Holy Eucharist, Jesus is literally and wholly present—body and blood, soul and divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine: the Bible is forthright in declaring it (cf. 1 Cor. 10:16–17, 11:23–29; and, most forcefully, John 6:32–71).

Only in the sense of "intimacy" is that or ever can be, correct. If you will take the time and review Jn 6 and add to your pondering, Jn 17, you might just see something. And if it was as you say it is in your above declaration, you, as most others have brought upon yourselves much damnation.