At the end of the Second Century Christians recorded traditions that the Apostle Peter had eventually found his way to the city of Rome where he became its first bishop and was ultimately crucified there at the Vatican Hill. The apostle Paul, who had met the historical Peter in both Jerusalem and Antioch sometime in the 50s AD. Although Paul sends personal greetings to over two dozen Christians in Rome, he makes no mention of Peter, who evidently was not present there. Similarly, although the Book of the Acts of the Apostles gives much attention to the careers of Paul and Peter, it makes no mention of Peter ever traveling to Rome. Although two letters included in the New Testament canon claim Peter as their author, they are pseudepigraphic: written by someone else writing in Peter’s name. John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will look at our sources for the historical Peter, what we can know about him, and also at the sources of our later traditions and legends about this disciple of Jesus.