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THE MEASURE BY which the Emperor Constantine the Great not only granted the Christian Church freedom of religious worship in 313, but also decreed the return of ecclesiastical goods confiscated during the persecutions, had necessarily far-reaching consequences for the local church of Rome.
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proprietary church system, primatial position, papal programme, papal idea, papal theme, primatial rights, jurisdictional primacy, papal institution, medieval papacy, military defender, papal law, synodal decrees, papal history, papal initiative, individual popes, imperial coronation, ecclesiastical officers, papal office, papal chancery, imperial government
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Short History of the Papacy, College of Cardinals, Donation of Constantine, New Rome, Western Europe, Aliddle Ages, Council of Constance, Investiture Contest, Peter Damian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Christ Himself, Christian Church, Council of Constantinople, Fourth Lateran Council, Great Schism, Old Testament, Pope John, Pope Silvester, Western Roman, Northern Italy, Petrine Rome, Roman Caesars, South Italy, The Zenith of the Medieval Papacy, Arnold of Brescia
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