popes造句

Of or relating to the popes or the Roman Catholic Church.

Its presidents' average age and tenure in office almost match those of popes.

Churches and secular buildings were built over the centuries by tyrannical popes and kings.

Emperors became popes (both were called "Pontifex Maximus"), senators became bishops, orators became priests and basilicas became churches.

But because the eastern emperor did not physically occupy Rome, the popes extended their spiritual authority into the secular field.

The Council of Vienne was held in that town in France by order of Clement v, the first of the Avignon popes.

Frederick I1 was an odd man to lead a crusade--a free-thinker and heretic who, having driven two popes to despair, was excommunicated by a third, Gregory IX.

This may mean Britain receives more visits from popes in the future: the country is low on the list of countries visited since 1964, when the Vatican began counting such trips systematically.

In the personal arms of the popes, the keys are, of course, arranged as in the arms of the Holy See: the other arrangement would be equivalent to treating him as merely the head of that little state.

Some Renaissance popes were not known for their learning. Vasari, in his "Life of Michelangelo" has a good story which is typical of the martial Christianity of that period.