. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . -dition the Apostle Peter was the first bishop there; andthe primacy he wras supposed to have held in the circleof the Apostles would naturally pass to all his succes-sors in office. 2) The bishops of Rome had, in general,been able and efficient leaders, and enjoyed great respectfor their orthodoxy. 3) Many of the archbishops of theWest were, indeed, unwilling to acknowledge the suprem-acy of the Pope, but on the other hand the bishops,priests, and monks vied with each other to place them-selves directly under the jurisdiction of the Rom
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . -dition the Apostle Peter was the first bishop there; andthe primacy he wras supposed to have held in the circleof the Apostles would naturally pass to all his succes-sors in office. 2) The bishops of Rome had, in general,been able and efficient leaders, and enjoyed great respectfor their orthodoxy. 3) Many of the archbishops of theWest were, indeed, unwilling to acknowledge the suprem-acy of the Pope, but on the other hand the bishops,priests, and monks vied with each other to place them-selves directly under the jurisdiction of the Roman seein order to become more independent of their localsuperiors, archbishops and bishops. This helped toestablish the opinion that all spiritual power and CONSTITUTION AND CULTUS 101 authority emanated from the Pope. 4) As the mission-aries among the Teutonic tribes were either sent out bythe Pope or aided by him they inculcated in these peo-ples the deepest reverence for the Pope, as one commis-sioned by God himself as the head of the Church and the. Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops in Robes of Office At theCrowning of An Emperor. vicegerent of Christ on earth. 5) The Pseudo-Isidoriandecretals served to give legality to the power of thePope. These decretals were mainly a collection ofdecisions in ecclesiastical jurisprudence which werealleged to have emanated from the early Popes and 102 THE MEDIEVAL ERA famous synods. The collection was claimed to havebeen made by a renowned Spanish bishop Isidore of Se-ville (f636), but thej^ are now known to be forgeries,hence, the name Pseudo-Isidorian(False-Isidorian). Thefirst one to appeal to these decretals in support of hisauthority was the energetic Pope Nicholas I. (858-867).43. Schism between the Roman and the Greek was but one bishop who could dispute these pre-tensions of the Pope, the patriarch of him the Christians of the East were wont to turn forleadership in proportion as his city grew in importa
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