10 sentences with 'pope'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pope and other words derived from it.
• « An important example of an early pope who created such a precedent is Gregory the Great, who was pope at the end of the 7th century. »
• « Charlemagne had already restored Pope Leo III to his throne after this pope had been expelled from Rome by powerful Roman families who detested him. »
• « The Great Western Schism finally ended after a series of ecclesiastical councils, the Conciliar Movement, succeeded in establishing the authority of a single pope in 1417. »
• « In the end, Luther argued that the pope, and by extension the whole church, were irrelevant to spiritual salvation. He argued that true Christians were part of the priesthood of believers, united by their faith and without need of the Catholic Church. »
• « In the same year the Catholic church issued the doctrine of papal infallibility - the claim that the pope literally could not err in manners of faith and doctrine - and Bismarck feared that a future pope might one day command German Catholics not to obey the state. »
• « In 1054, the Eastern branch of Christianity, led by the Patriarch of Constantinople (a title roughly equivalent to the pope of the Western Church), established its centre in Constantinople and adopted the Greek language for its services. »
• « The western branch, under the pope, remained in Rome, becoming known as the Roman Catholic Church and continuing to use Latin. »
• « Ultimately, the pope decided all matters of theology, interpreting God's will to the people, but he also had authority over temporal matters. »