Historically we can show that Catholicism did not spread into all areas immediately. It was not the original church with original Bishops..

One evidence is the adding of Bishop seas in the 6th through the 8th centuries in areas the original church had original Bishops/Elders. Macedonia had elders originally in Phillippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, Crete, etc.

Muslim wars had moved populations leaving opportunities for Rome to make protection deals. With these deals came opportunities for the Catholic church to spread into new areas. The original church was displaced and Catholics moved in.

Notice Clement of Ohrid was called the first Bishop of Bulgaria in an area that had Bishops/Elders in the New Testament. So that the new Catholic seas did not decend from the original Bishops established by the apostles.

Clement of Ohrid

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This article is about the medieval Slavic saint. For other uses, see Clement (disambiguation).

Saint Clement of Ohrid (Greek: Κλήμης, gen. Greek: Κλήμεντος, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian: Свети Климент Охридски, [sveˈti ˈkliment ˈoxridski], Slovak: svätý Kliment Ochridský / Sloviensky) (ca. 840 – 916) was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs.[6][7][8][9][10] He was one of the most prominent disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts, especially their popularisation among Christianised Slavs. He was the founder of the Ohrid Literary School and is regarded as a patron of education and language by some Slavic people. He is regarded to be the first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church,[11][12] one of the seven Apostles of the Bulgarian Empire (Bulgaria), the patron saint of the Republic of Macedonia, the city of Ohrid[5] and the Macedonian Orthodox Church.[13][14]

Many of the Catholic Seas were not directly descended from the Apostles.

Another example are the Islands of Crete.

Paul left Titus in Crete to ordain Bishops but Catholics insisted that Crete fell under the Sea of Antioch, later gaining independence from that Sea after the Muslim conquest, when Rome was invited to move in to Crete for protection. It was this period the Catholic presence was established.

It does not descend from apostles as originally established by Titus. Titus' original appointments did not fall under Antioch or Rome.