Almost everything about catholic faith revolves around events that (allegedly) happened in the Middle East. Most of the holiest sites seem to be there in relation to the bible’s depiction of events. So wouldn’t it make sense that the pope/vatican would place its power center as near as possible from the holiest sites? How did it come to be Rome? Was this a decision based on the current political climate at the time or was there a reason based on faith/rethoric of the church?
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Because most of the people in the Middle East rejected Christianity. One of the great ironies in the history of religion is that the religion of the King of the Jews was rejected by its intended audience–the Jews. Most Jewish people saw Jesus as another Messianic pretender because the Kingdom and methods He spoke of were far different than the political and worldly approach that the Jewish Messiah in their scripture would take. So failing that, the early Christians focused their attention to people who were actually interested in what Jesus had to say and those people happened to be Greeks and Romans. It was in these places where Christianity grew and became the main religion so inevitably, the power centers would be those places rather than where it actually originated.
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