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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And subsequent tradition, aposteriori, will proclaim Simon Peter the first Bishop of Rome and the founder of the papacy .
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But is this in a rather different sense to that in which the papacy understands itself?
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In 1378 a schism, occasioned by a double election to the papacy , split the western Church.
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Perhaps the reason for the discovery was the increasingly legalistic papacy that had emerged.
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The emperors, indeed, had saved the papacy in the period before Hildebrand.
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The twelfth-century papacy was rooted in a distant and revered past.
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Without a territorial base the papacy could not be independent of imperial and other influences.