A Concise History of the Origin, Progress and Effects of the Papal Supremacy: With Observations on the Alterations Made in It (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Not only Constantine, but the emperors his successors, assumed supreme authority in ecclesiastical atl'airs, and exercised it some hundred years.6 They con firmed, or set aside, the election of bishops, called councils, in which they' often presided, established their canons by an imperial edict; for they were invalid without their sanction. They appointed judges for religious causes, and deposed bishops who were lapsed into heresy. 1 Eusebius, therefme, who wrote in the 4th century, tells us, that Constantine the Great was called the general bishop, from his absolute and general supremacy over all prelates.

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