papacy in English

noun
1
the office or authority of the pope.
In 1309, a French pope moved the papacy (office of the pope) from Rome to Avignon in what is now France.

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1. Such tenets involved the papacy in action.

2. Ironically, the papacy must bear some responsibility for these developments.

3. He sees his papacy as a coat of many colours.

4. The twelfth-century papacy was rooted in a distant and revered past.

5. Avignon papacy, Roman Catholic papacy during the period 1309–77, when the popes took up residence at Avignon, France, instead of at Rome, primarily because of the current political conditions

6. The emperors, indeed, had saved the papacy in the period before Hildebrand.

7. Embracing local and provincial churches was the Church, headed by the papacy.

8. 598 B.C.E.) Origins of the Avignon Papacy Philip IV of France was instrumental in securing the election of Clement V, a Frenchman, to the papacy in 1305.

9. 26 The twelfth-century papacy was rooted in a distant and revered past.

10. This had repercussions for the papacy as well as for the parishes.

11. 20 An example of such glorification is that of the papacy of Rome.

12. The papacy, to maintain orthodoxy, placed restrictions on which universities could teach theology.

13. Without a territorial base the papacy could not be independent of imperial and other influences.

14. In 1847 the ambassador in Vienna was sent on a special mission to the papacy.

15. In 1378 a schism, occasioned by a double election to the papacy, split the western Church.

16. There have been perhaps 30 or 40 Antipopes in the 2000-year history of the papacy

17. It marked the end of the possibility of an attitude of withdrawal for the papacy.

18. Despite the various works in which he attacked the papacy, Gringore was a devout Catholic.

19. On the other side, what did Innocent or the papacy lose in the long struggle?

20. From early times the papacy had allied with the imperial power to condemn the unorthodox.

21. 14 In 1378 a schism, occasioned by a double election to the papacy, split the western Church.

22. James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church.

23. But is this in a rather different sense to that in which the papacy understands itself?

24. Now the papacy is Canonizing itself absent an extended, churchwide discernment on the wisdom of Canonizing the pope

25. Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy.

26. But it is a fact the papacy declared these Priory knights these Knights Templar, of limitless power.

27. The papacy did not respond well to this criticism of Hadrian, and Leo retaliated sharply in 7

28. Antipopes are people who claim the papacy against the Roman Catholic Pope who was legitimately elected by the Cardinals

29. And after his elevation to the papacy[Sentence dictionary], he built a colonnaded portico out of his income as cardinal.

30. 20 Behind whatever economic and military strength the papacy possessed, there existed enormous and immeasurable power as a moral force.

31. And after his elevation to the papacy, he built a colonnaded portico out of his income as cardinal.

32. The conflict between nobility, emperor and papacy was to be a constant and powerful factor throughout his reign.

33. The Avignon Papacy was also known as The Babylon Captivity (a reference to the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia c

34. At any rate, the assertion that the papacy was founded by Jesus is simply not supported in the Bible.

35. A great deal of fervent and unfavourable publicity was heaped upon the papacy as a result of this issue.

36. An Antipope (historically) has been a second claimant to the papacy, elected in an invalid conclave, up against a legitimate pope

37. Even after the Papacy had returned to Rome in 13 the Anti-Popes enabled it to retain its luxury and lustre.

38. Originated and backed by the papacy, it was a murderous attempt to torture and stamp out all who disagreed with the church.

39. 19 There were occasional rumors of visions and "angelic" phenomena associated with Pius XII during the entire duration of his papacy (1939-.

40. She was an opponent of the Gregorian reform, though she honoured the papacy, and defender of the autonomy of Abbacies.

41. To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani, it was all the most absolute madness.

42. What history shows is that, for more than six centuries without a break, the papacy was the sworn enemy of elementary justice.

43. In addition, the Papacy was forced to repay many outstanding debts to the Loredan family totaling approximately 500,000 Ducats, an enormous sum of money.

44. Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value.

45. It had been thought that Revelation chapter 12 described a war between pagan Rome and papal Rome, with the male child representing the papacy.

46. This dependence between the papacy and the king of the Franks started with Charlemagne's father, Pepin, who was given the authority to rule by the Pope.

47. In the 13th century mendicant orders—the Franciscans and the Dominicans—who swore vows of poverty and earned their living by begging, were approved by the papacy.

48. Avignon charms visitors with its ancient streets, restored mediaeval ramparts and the immense Gothic architecture of the Palais des Papes (Palace of Popes—the papacy was based here in the 14th century)

49. The Concordat of 1933 gave the papacy what it wanted most, but it also required some concessions from Pius XI and Pacelli, as Joseph Beisinger has described in Controversial Concordats …

50. -Acy definition, a suffix of nouns of quality, state, office, etc., many of which accompany adjectives ending in -acious or nouns or adjectives ending in -ate:fallAcy; papAcy; legAcy; delicAcy; pirAcy