SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Papal Primacy, Turnitin, Pope Gregory I
15 Dec 2012
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Pope innocent iii embodies the papacy and the spiritual and political power. Leo i, 440 461 ce, first theologian of the papacy. Anti-pope may claim he is the rightful pope when a new pope is selected. For the first three centuries, the church is not an organized institutional bureaucracy. It is just a loose church united by community. Peter is the one looked at of prominence and authority among the apostles. Peter and st. paul were both martyred in rome. Rome is the only apostolic church in the western empire. It begins to exercise priority to central italy, and then through the rest of the. The person that makes all of these claims is pope leo i or leo the great (440 461 ce). He is able to speak in consistency for roman primacy and his holiness adds legitimacy to his claims. Council of chalcedon (451 ce) articulated who jesus was, and pope leo i issues his.
