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[pā́pə-sē]
(n.)The office and jurisdiction of a pope.
(n.)The period of time during which a pope is in office.
(n.)A succession or line of popes: the Medici papacy.
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The Pope (from Latin: papa, "daddy", "tutor"; from Greek πάπας, pápas, "papa" or "daddy", originally written πάππας, páppas, as in Odyssey VI.57) is the Bishop of Rome, the spiritual leader of the Rom...
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The Avignon Papacy, also known as the Babylonian Captivity, was the period from 1309 to 1378 during which seven Popes resided in Avignon (modern-day France)
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BOOK I; The History of the Papacy BOOK II; Dogmas of the Papacy Book III; The Genius and Influence of the Papacy...
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Etymology: Middle English papacie, from Medieval Latin papatia, from Late Latin papa pope — more at pope. Date: 14th century. 1 : the office of pope...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on papacy (Roman Catholicism), the office and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome, the pope (Latin: papa, from Greek pappas, “father”), who presides over the central government of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest of the three major branches of Christianity. The early papacy...
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Complete coverage of the papacy from TIME.com While for centuries only cardinals have been elected pope, in theory, any adult male Roman Catholic is papabile, or a potential candidate for the papacy.
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This term is employed in an ecclesiastical and in an historical signification. In the former of these uses it denotes the ecclesiastical system in which the pope as successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Jesus Christ governs the Catholic Church as its supreme head. In the latter, it signifies the About this page...
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Basic Catholic Teaching on St. Peter and the Papacy. The Papacy and the Primacy of Peter · Continuation of the Primacy in the Papal Succession...
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Innocent III: The Papacy at its Height The Papacy Overreaches The "Empire and Papacy" has been a theme of medieval history teaching for so long that students might be forgiven for being bored out of their minds. What, they might ask, is the possible use of studying conflicts between long dead popes and emperors.
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