papacy|papacies in English

noun

[pa·pa·cy || 'peɪpəsɪ]

position or authority of the Pope; period during which a pope rules; government of the Roman Catholic Church (headed by the Pope)

Use "papacy|papacies" in a sentence

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.