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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Pope
The Church's doctrine as to the pope was authoritatively declared in the Vatican Council in the Constitution "Pastor Aeternus".
Peter, the perpetuity of this office in the person of the Roman pontiff, the pope's jurisdiction over the faithful, and his supreme authority to define in all questions of faith and morals.
Peter head of the Church, but in the words, "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, it shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed in heaven," He indicated the scope of this headship.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12260a.htm   (11504 words)

  
 Pope Benedict XIV - Ex Quo - On the Euchologion - 1 March 1756
When Pope Felix III could not ignore this and therefore deprived Acacius of communion, he had the audacity in the year of the Lord 484 to erase the name of the Roman pontiff Felix from the sacred diptychs in a new and hitherto unheard-of excess of rashness.
The clear result of all this is that the Latin and Greek churches agree in recognizing and affirming that the commemoration implies a profession of due subjection to the Roman pontiff as head of the Church, and of a willingness to remain in the unity of the Church.
VII), it is sufficiently established that in the Latin church a commemoration of the king is made in those districts in which it has long been an accepted custom or where a concession of the Apostolic See has allowed it, as Meratus remarks (ad Gavantum, vol.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0247m.htm   (16162 words)

  
 Peter VII of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter VII of Alexandria could refer to one of two high-ranking bishops:
The Coptic Peter VII, who served as Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 1810 to 1852.
The Eastern Orthodox Peter VII, who served as Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 1997 to 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_VII_of_Alexandria   (119 words)

  
 The Papacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The title "pope" was not reserved in the west solely for the bishop of Rome until the 11th century but is now applied to all Bishops of Rome beginning with the first.
Innocent, while admitting that the Pope was inferior to God, nevertheless held that he was something more than man: God spoke and acted through the Pope, hence whatever the pope proclaimed as law was divine law.
To the Catholic contention 'where Peter or his successor is, there is the Church,' the Protestant stoutly replies 'where Christ is, there is the church,' The Pentecostal would say 'where Jesus is, there am I.' The foundation-stone of the papal supremacy was Rome itself.
latter-rain.com /eccles/papacy.htm   (1303 words)

  
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POPE ST. PIUS X (1903-1914) "One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the Deposit of Faith delivered to the Saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words, and the gainsaying of knowledged falsely so-called....
Pope Vigilius, who wished to return to Rome from exile, in a decree, or Iudicatum, recanted his former orthodox Catholic position, condemned the orthodox decree of the Council of Chalcedon (451), and excommunicated the bishop-authors of that decree (the so-called Three Chapters of Theodoret).
POPE ST. BONIFACE IV (608-615) Pope Boniface manifested strong tendencies toward the Nestorian heresy, which denied the correct doctrine of the two natures of Christ and denied that the Blessed Virgin Mary was the Mother of God.
www.traditio.com /tradlib/popelim.txt   (6131 words)

  
 The Consequences of Chalcedon
The Armenians to-day still acknowledge the pope as Patriarch of the West and the chief of the bishops of the Church--though some of its writers would have it that the primacy was conferred by the Council of Nicaea and lost by the "apostasy" of Chalcedon.
Peter the Fuller was objecting to Chalcedon, and got himself made Patriarch of Antioch, sympathised with and supported by Zeno, son-in-law of the emperor and afterwards emperor himself.
To be in communion with Mongos, an out-and-out Monophysite, was to cease to be Catholic.
www.catholic-forum.com /members/popestleo/conseq.html   (5008 words)

  
 Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Myth of Petrine Papacy
Had they known about Peter being the first pope, which they should have known if it was true, they would undoubtedly have used it in their polemics against the other churches.
The assertion that Peter was the first Bishop of Rome is also in complete contradiction to what we know from the historical development of the church hierarchy.
Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) used the Decretals as the source of his claim, in the Dictatus papae (1075), of the right to depose princes, emperors and kings.
www.geocities.com /paulntobin/peterpope.html   (4518 words)

  
 Peter VII of Alexandria : Pope Petros VII
Peter VII of Alexandria : Pope Petros VII
Peter VII was born in Sigchari[?], Cyprus on September 3, 1949.
He has been the Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria since March 9, 1997.
www.termsdefined.net /po/pope-petros-vii.html   (214 words)

  
 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
The Pope was not the ruler of that Church, but one of the Ecumenical Patriarchs, along with the Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople.
Popes from a similiar family, the Medici, are featured in the genealogy of the Medici given with the rulers of Tuscany.
www.friesian.com /popes.htm   (9005 words)

  
 UPON THIS ROCK?
There is not a hint of Biblical or historical evidence that Peter, during his lifetime, was at any time considered or called the "Bishop of Rome." Nor did the apostle ever claim for himself the kind of ecclesiastical powers the later bishops of Rome declared for themselves.
Leo I (440-461 AD) is considered by some historians as the first "Pope." With the condition of the Empire and its weak emperors, Leo became the strong man of the hour and taking advantage claimed himself (by divine appointment, of course) "Primate of all Bishops" and obtained from Emperor Valentinian III imperial recognition.
The 200 years between Nicolas I and Gregory VII is called by historians "The Midnight of the Darkages" because of the bribery, corruption, immorality and bloodshed.
www.biblicist.org /bible/popes.shtml   (2254 words)

  
 Pope Leo I Summary
In the 5th century Alexandria took issue with Constantinople in terms of the doctrine of Christ.
Cyril, the able and aggressive bishop of Alexandria, maintained against Nestorius, the Antiochene bishop of Constantinople, that the human and divine are united in Christ; Nestorius sought to maintain the separate identity of the divine and human.
Although the primacy of the pope was recognized, the patriarch of Constantinople was given the same privileges of honor and the right to ordain metropolitans in Asia, Pontus, and Thrace.
www.bookrags.com /Pope_Leo_I   (2756 words)

  
 The Pope, Rome, and Events in Early Church History
He refers to St. Peter and St. Paul as on an equality one with another, and the other Apostles as joint founders of the Church; if he makes any difference between them it is to exalt St. Paul.
There was Peter who by reason of unrighteous jealousy endured not one nor two but many labors, and thus having borne his testimony went to his appointed place of glory.
He may have held that St. Peter was the Head of the Church, and that his successors inherited his prerogatives; but it is strange, if he did, that he does not mention it.
www.abcog.org /pope3.htm   (5829 words)

  
 The Apostle Simon Peter Study Archive @ PreteristArchive.com - The Internet's Only Unbiased Look at Preterism @ ...
Peter, through unrighteous envy, endured not one or two, but numerous labours and when he had at length suffered martyrdom, departed to the place of glory due to him.
Peter was one of the twelve men that God placed all together in Galilee to assist the Master in the building of his church (Matt 16.19] and the preaching of the gospel of salvation as opposed to the slaughter of innocent animals.
Peter was but one of the twelve whom the Father sent to be with Jesus in his "hour" on earth.
www.preteristarchive.com /StudyArchive/p/peter_apostle-author.html   (9610 words)

  
 666, The Number of the Beast
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) asserted explicitly that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ; further defined at the Council of Florence in the Decree for the Greeks (1439) and Vatican Council I in Pastor Aerternus (1870).
e.g., of the symbol of the ten-horned beast to be the Popes, and the sixth seal to the conversion of Constantine
The pope, wearing the falda, amice, alb, cincture, pectoral cross, stola, cope (mantum), and tiara is carried into the basilica on the sedia gestatoria under the canopy and with the two flabella borne on either side.
www.aloha.net /~mikesch/666.htm   (8982 words)

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