Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . -boast, still his emphatic assertion of the supremacy of theRoman bishop was a great step toward bringing the WesternChurch under a single head.^ 1 See Kcadmi;$, chap, iv, for development of the popes power. The Rise of the Papacy 49 The name pope (Latin, papa, father) was originally Title of popeand quite naturally given to all bishops, and even to priests. Itbegan to be especially applied to the bishops of Rome, perhapsas early as the sixth century, but
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . -boast, still his emphatic assertion of the supremacy of theRoman bishop was a great step toward bringing the WesternChurch under a single head.^ 1 See Kcadmi;$, chap, iv, for development of the popes power. The Rise of the Papacy 49 The name pope (Latin, papa, father) was originally Title of popeand quite naturally given to all bishops, and even to priests. Itbegan to be especially applied to the bishops of Rome, perhapsas early as the sixth century, but was not apparently confinedto them until two or three hundred years later. Gregory VII. Fig. 13. The Ancient Basilica of St. Peter Of the churches built by Constantine in Rome that in honor of St. Peterwas, next to the Lateran, the most important. It was constructed onthe site of Neros circus, where St. Peter was beUeved to have beencrucified. It retained its original appearance, as here represented, fortwelve hundred years, and then the popes (who had given up theLateran as their residence and come to Uve in the Vatican palace closeto St. Peters) determined to build the new and grander church onesees to-day. (See section 45, below.) Constantine and the popes madeconstant use in their buildings of columns and stones taken from theolder Roman buildings, which were in this way demolished (d. 1085 ; see section 30, below) was the first to declare explicitlythat the title should be used only for the bishop of Rome. Not long after the death of Leo the Great, Odoacer put an Duties thatend to the Western line of emperors. Then, as we know, upontheTheodoric and his East- Goths s
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