Was Peter The First Pope?

From the Bible we really do not have good evidence that Peter was ever in Rome:

In Romans 16, from the year 56 A.D, Paul greets a list of people, but Peter was not one of them.

These four letters were written while Paul was in Rome under house arrest (Acts 27:1-28:31):

Ephesians 3:1; 4:1; 6:18-20;
Philippians 1:12, 13; 4:22;
Colossians 4:2-4;
Philemon 1, 10, 22, 23

In none of these letters, do we see Peter mentioned.

2 Tim 4:6 starts a list of people who were with Paul at the end; Peter was not one of them.

Peter was not called to minister among the gentiles:

for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles
--Gal 2:8

This verse shows that Peter had not laid a foundation in Rome in Paul's time.

20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
--Romans 15:20

Gal 2:7-8 Peter stood condemned

From the Bible we do not see that Peter is in a special position of authority:

Peter last appears in scripture in Acts 15, where we see James as the head of the Jerusalem Church.

1 Peter 1:1 Peter calls himself an apostle.

The following verse gives us the universal priesthood of believers:

5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
--1 Peter 2:5

1 Peter 5:1 Peter is an Elder:

1 I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder,
--1 Peter 5:1

Paul condemns in the church at Corinth "these slogans you have, like 'I am for Paul,' 'I am for Apollos,' 'I am for Cephas' (1 Cor 1:12).
In the end, he does not in any way give Peter a special status.

In Acts 1, at the end of the chapter, it was the other disciples who chose who would replace Judas.