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Article: Papacy and Papal States
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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PAPACY AND PAPAL STATES
PAPACY AND PAPAL STATES.
"Pope" (from the Greek
papas,
Latin and Italian
papa,
'father') was the title given clergy in the ancient church, which in the West eventually became the
exclusive title of the bishop of Rome, who was conside
red the successor of St. Peter and increasingly accepted in the West as head of the whole church. At the beginning of the early modern period, the papacy had so restored its institutional authority due to the healing of the Great Western Schism (1378
–
1417) and its increasing victory over conciliarism that Alexander VI (reigned 1492
–
1503) could divide the non-Christian world and assign sovereignty over it to Spain ...
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