Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 3.3.2
They insisted that the men they were leaving behind as successors be thoroughly blameless and irreproachable in every respect, so that great benefit would come to those who would act in their place of teaching, while the greatest calamity would befall those who fell away. But because it would take far too long to list the successions of every church in a work of this scope, we will set forth the tradition that comes from the Apostles and the faith proclaimed to humanity, which has reached us through the succession of bishops from the most glorious two Apostles, Peter and Paul, who founded and established the church at Rome. By doing so we confound all those who, in any manner — whether through self-pleasing evil, empty glory, blindness, or bad judgment — gather in any way other than what is fitting. For every church must convene to this church on account of its more powerful principality; that is, the faithful from everywhere must come together here, because in this church the tradition that comes from the Apostles has always been preserved by those who come from everywhere.
Latin
Valde enim fectos et irreprehensibiles in omnibus eos volebant esse, quos et successores relinquebant, suum ipsorum locum magisterii tradenemendate agentibus fieret magna utilitas, lapsis autem summa calamitas, Sed quoniam valde longum est, in hoe tali volumine omnium ecclesiarum enumerare successiones, maximz, et antiquissimz, et omnibus cognitz, a gloriosissimis duobus Apostolis ? Petro et Paulo Rome fundatz et constitute ecclesiz, eam quam habet ab Apostolis traditionem, et annuntiatam hominibus fidem, per successiones Episcoporum pervenientem .usque ad nos indicantes, confundimus omnes eos, qui quoquo modo vel per sibiplacentiam malam, vel vanam gloriam, vel per cecitatem et malam sententiam, preeterquam oportet colligunt. Ad hane enim ecclesiam propter potentiorem principalitatem necesse est omnem Sconvenire Ecclesiam, hoc est, eos qui sunt undique fideles, in qua semper ab his, qui sunt undique, conservata est ea que est ab Apostolis traditio.