Sentence examples for roman pope from inspiring English sources

No Roman Pope established the Apostles' Creed or the form of the Eucharistic celebration.

As a way of saying "cheers!" for curing him of leprosy, Constantine decided he might as well give all of western Europe to the Roman Pope.

Initiated by the Roman pope Gregory I the Great in the late 6th century ad, it was so named because the bread and wine used in the Eucharist (Holy Communion) were consecrated on the preceding Sunday.

Under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius he published in 1763 his most important work, De Statu Ecclesiae et Legitima Potestate Romani Pontificis ("Concerning the State of the Church and the Legitimate Power of the Roman Pope").

Photian Schism, a 9th-century-ad controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity that was precipitated by the opposition of the Roman pope to the appointment by the Byzantine emperor Michael III of the lay scholar Photius to the patriarchate of Constantinople.

Refusing to recognize the Roman pope Martin V during the Western Schism, Benedict created his own cardinals, who, through the influence of King Alfonso V of Aragon, chose Sánchez at the castle of Peñíscola, in Valencia, as Clement VIII on June 20 , 1423

The Roman popes, most notably Gregory I the Great (reigned 590 604), assumed many of the duties of the decadent imperial bureaucracy.

He wasn't willing to challenge the harsh, self-denying ordinances that a series of Roman popes had foisted on Christianity during the Middle Ages.

Concurrently, the theological calmness of the West, in contrast to the often violent theological disputes that troubled the Eastern patriarchates, strengthened the position of the Roman popes, who made increasing claims to preeminence.

But Benedict, who had maintained his claims against three Roman popes (Boniface IX, Innocent VII, and Gregory XII) and two antipopes whose claims derived from the Council of Pisa (Alexander V and John XXIII), refused to yield to Pope Martin V, who was elected in November 1417 to achieve unity.

Clement, moved by his guest's tales of suffering at the hands of the Roman popes, loaded him with gifts and honours and sent him north to Paris.