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An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.

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(Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.

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An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.

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Any bishop of the early Christian church.

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The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.

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(Cumberland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).

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The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).

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The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).

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To act as or like a pope.

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To convert to Roman Catholicism.

The war of Urbino was further marked by a crisis in the relations between pope and cardinals.

He became a notary and a person of some importance in the city, and was sent in 1343 on a public errand to Pope Clement VI.

The pope was naturally proud of his family and had practised nepotism from the outset.

The pope was greatly alarmed, and although he was then involved in war with France he sent about 30,000 ducats to the Hungarians.

He seemed at first inclined to press a quarrel with France over the Burgundian frontier, but the refusal of Pope Boniface VIII.

He passed his time in feasts and pageants, while in a bull the pope denounced him as a criminal, a pagan and a heretic, until, terrified by a slight disturbance on the 15th of December, he abdicated and fled from Rome.

Denouncing the temporal power of the pope he implored the emperor to deliver Italy, and especially Rome, from their oppressors; but, heedless of his invitations, Charles kept him in prison for more than a year in the fortress of Raudnitz, and then handed him over to Clement, who had been clamouring for his surrender.

In the same year the Lutheran reformation took hold of him, and he began to issue appeals in prose and verse against the Mass and against the pope as antichrist.

It raised no voice against the primacy of the pope.

The pope abolished the order, however, as it seemed to be in bad repute and had outlived its usefulness.

The pope was above all a religious man, of a gentle and contemplative character; the cardinal was pre-eminently a man of affairs.

Not long after the return of the pope the amity between the Vatican and the Tuileries was again broken.

For this display of independence he was imprisoned at Reims, and not released till some three years later, when Napoleon had extorted terms from the captive pope at Fontainebleau.

His marriage in March 1518 was arranged by the pope with Madeleine la Tour d'Auvergne, a royal princess of France, whose daughter was the Catherine de' Medici celebrated in French history.

The pope was accused of having exaggerated the conspiracy of the cardinals for purposes of financial gain, but most of such accusations appear to be unsubstantiated.

The pope had already authorized the extensive grant of indulgences in order to secure funds for the crusade and more particularly for the rebuilding of St Peter's at Rome.

On the 30th of May Luther sent an explanation of his theses to the pope; on the 7th of August he was cited to appear at Rome.

The pope or his legate, however, took no steps to remove abuses or otherwise reform the Scandinavian churches.

An attempt late in 1519 to seize Ferrara failed, and the pope recognized the need of foreign aid.

The expense of enlisting io,000 Swiss was to be borne equally by pope and emperor.

Then the pope resorted to pawning palace furniture, table plate, jewels, even statues of the apostles.

Several banking firms and many individual creditors were ruined by the death of the pope.

In the past many conflicting estimates were made of the character and achievements of the pope during whose pontificate Protestantism first took form.

The queen appealed to the pope and was seconded by her brother of England, with the result that the pope's sanction was obtained on the 18th of February 1515.

The pope's intervention procured his release, after nearly a year's imprisonment.

On the 7th of May 1451 Waynflete, from "le peynted chambre" in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he laboured under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope.

He supported Frederick in his struggle with the anti-kings, Henry Raspe, landgrave of Thuringia, and William II., count of Holland, and was put under the papal ban by Pope Innocent IV., Bavaria being laid under an interdict.

The substance of the claim to infallibility made by the Roman Catholic Church is that the Church and the pope cannot err when solemnly enunciating, as binding on all the faithful, a decision on a question of faith or morals.

For this exercise of the primacy as for the others, we must conceive of the pope and the episcopate united to him as a continuation of the Apostolic College and its head Peter.

The pope when teaching ex cathedra acts as head of the whole episcopal body and of the whole Church.

This doctrine, rather political than theological, was a survival of the errors which had come into being after the Great Schism, and especially at the council of Constance; its object was to put the Church above its head, as the council of Constance had put the ecumenical council above the pope, as though the council could be ecumenical without its head.

But when does the pope speak ex cathedra, and how is it to be distinguished when he is exercising his infallibility?

It is remarkable that the definition of the infallibility of the pope did not appear among the projects (schemata) prepared for the deliberations of the Vatican Council (1869).

The Pisans and Genoese now disputed about the ownership of Sardinia, but the pope and the emperor decided in favour of Pisa.

But Hepburn, prior of St Andrews, having obtained the vote of the chapter, expelled him, and was himself in turn expelled by Forman, bishop of Moray, who had been nominated by the pope.

Or, secondly, the concordat may result from two identical separate acts, one emanating from the pope and the other from the sovereign; this was the form of the first true concordat, that of Worms, in 1122.

In all cases canonical institution (which confers ecclesiastical jurisdiction) is reserved to the pope or the bishops.

The convention of Sutri of 1 i i i between Pope Paschal II.

The emperor renounced investiture by ring and staff, and permitted canonical elections; the pope on his part recognized the king's right to perform lay investiture and to assist at elections.

In Germany the concessions made to the pope and the reservations maintained by him in the matter of taxes and benefices were deemed excessive, and the prolonged discontent which resulted was one of the causes of the success of the Lutheran Reformation.

All bishoprics, abbeys and priories were in the royal nomination, the canonical institution belonging to the pope.

The pope preserved the right to nominate to vacant benefices in curia and to certain benefices of the chapters, but all the others were in the nomination of the bishops or other inferior collators.

However, the exercise of the pope's right of provision still left considerable scope for papal intervention, and the pope retained the annates.

Though he rejected the demand of the pope, who wished him to consent to the abolition of the compacts, he endeavoured to curry favour with the Roman see by punishing severely all the more advanced opponents of papacy in Bohemia.

The confederacy was from its beginning supported by the Roman see, though Podébrad after the death of his implacable enemy, Pius II., attempted to negotiate with the new pope, Paul II.

Under Henry II., being involved in the disgrace of all the servants of Francis I., he was sent to Rome (1547), and he obtained eight votes in the conclave which followed the death of Pope Paul III.

After three quiet years passed in retirement in France (1550-1553), he was charged with a new mission to Pope Julius III.

His refusal to comply with the pope's injunctions led to a renewal of the war.

Frederick landed in Calabria, where he seized several towns, encouraged revolt in Naples, negotiated with the Ghibellines of Tuscany and Lombardy, and assisted the house of Colonna against Pope Bonif ace.

Bonif ace tried to induce King Charles to break the treaty, but the latter was only too anxious for peace, and finally in May 1303 the pope ratified it, Frederick agreeing to pay him a tribute.