the papacy

John based his foreign policy on a hope for western help, bought at the cost of a union of the churches (= submission to the papacy).

But when a German was named to succeed him, it seemed even to many Italians that their grip on the papacy had been broken.

Condoning the invasion of Sicily was only the beginning for the Papacy's support of Sicily.

Neither was the papacy impressed. Caravaggio received only one commission to paint for St Peter's and the work was rejected.

In the Middle Ages the city revived as the spiritual and temporal power of the papacy increased.

The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a pope; the papacy .

These mottos usually refer to a family name, birthplace, coat-of-arms, or office held before election to the papacy .

Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity.

The reform began as a struggle for a divorce and ended in freedom from the Papacy.

The rising had its origin in the struggle between the Hohenstaufen -ruled Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy for control over Italy.

Prophecy had declared that the papacy was to "think to change times and laws. "

It's a barrier that looks likely to hold so long as the Catholic lords all remain faithful to the Papacy .

Encyclicals are the heaviest ammunition in the papacy's intellectual arsenal.

After the turn of the millennium, the papacy will exist only a short period.

Moreover, Photios became involved in a dispute with the papacy -- the so-called Photian Schism. 3.

Papal diplomacy is almost as old as the papacy.

Pope The papal government; the papacy.

He asked about the institution of the papacy.

The office of the pope is called the Papacy;