10 sentences with 'papal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word papal and other words derived from it.
• « The Latin Church was distinguished by the at least nominal leadership of the Rome-based papacy - indeed, it was the papal claim to leadership of the Christian Church as a whole that drove a permanent wedge between the western and eastern churches, as the Byzantine emperors claimed authority over both church and state. »
• « Pope Gregory still considered Rome to be part of the Byzantine Empire, but by then Byzantium could not afford troops to help defend the city of Rome, and was keen to develop papal independence. »
• « Philip IV even managed to gain almost total control of the French Church, challenging papal authority. »
• « The Babylonian captivity began when Pope Boniface VIII issued a papal bull (formal injunction) in 1303 to the effect that all kings must recognise his authority even over their own kingdoms, a challenge he issued in response to the taxes kings levied on Church property. »
• « At the time, Rome was a very dangerous city, with rival noble families literally fighting in the streets over various feuds, so Pope Clement V moved himself and the papal office to the much more peaceful French city of Avignon. »
• « An unexpected "benefit" for Italy was actually the Babylonian captivity and the Great Western Schism: because the authority of the popes was so limited, Italian cities found it easy to operate with little papal interference, and powerful Italian families often intervened directly in the election of popes when it suited them. »
• « The city of Rome, however, remained firmly under papal control despite the declining independence of the other major Italian cities, having become an important Renaissance city after the end of the Great Western Schism. »
• « The popes reasserted their control of the papal states in central Italy, in some cases (such as those of Julius II, r. 1503 - 1513) personally going to the battlefield to lead troops against the armies of both foreign invaders and rival Italians. »
• « Following papal intervention and negotiations between the Spanish and Portuguese, the Spanish were to receive everything west of an arbitrary line on the map 1,100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, and everything to the east was to be granted to the Portuguese. »
• « In 1534, as papal threats intensified over his impiety, Henry VIII issued the Acts of Supremacy and Succession, effectively separating England from the Catholic Church and founding the Church of England in its place. »