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According to Roman Catholicism, the history of the papacy, the office held by the pope as head of the Catholic Church, spans from the time of Peter to the present day. [ 1 ] In the first three centuries of the Christian era, many of Peter's successors as bishops of Rome are obscure figures, most suffering martyrdom along with members of their ...
The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.
The series is set in Renaissance-era Italy and follows the Borgia family in their scandalous ascension to the papacy. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, the Borgias use bribery , simony , intimidation and murder in their relentless quest for wealth and power that make them history's most infamous crime family.
To understand why the Roman Catholic church is at a crossroads today, it helps to look back at the 10 years since Pope Francis was selected. Francis didn’t replace a pope who had died. David ...
1742 print of the corpse of John XII, one of the most infamous popes, being carried by a crowd. Saeculum obscurum (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsɛː.ku.lu.m obsˈkuː.rum], "the dark age/century"), also known as the Pornocracy or the Rule of the Harlots, was a period in the history of the papacy during the first two thirds of the 10th century, following the chaos after the death of Pope Formosus ...
With Sedevacantism, this is specifically in reference to the See of Saint Peter, i. e. – the Catholic Papacy. [2] The term Sedevacantism, as a thesis that the post- Second Vatican Council claimants to the Papacy operating out of the Vatican City are non-Catholic Antipopes , originated from a 1973 work, Sede Vacante: Paul VI is Not a ...
A History of Christianity is a six-part British television series originally broadcast on BBC Four in 2009. The series was presented by the English ecclesiastical historian Diarmaid MacCulloch , Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford .
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/The Second Ecumenical Council/Canons – via Wikisource. Duffy, Eamon (2014). Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (fourth (Kindle) ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11597-0. Dvornik, Francis (1966). Byzantium and the Roman primacy. New York: Fordham University Press.