Gregory VII1073
Excommunicates rulers who have made church appointments without papal authority. Enunciates 27 propositions claiming supreme legislative & judicial power. Claims the right to depose all princes, both temporal & spiritual
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Excommunicates rulers who have made church appointments without papal authority. Enunciates 27 propositions claiming supreme legislative & judicial power. Claims the right to depose all princes, both temporal & spiritual
Issues the Unam Sanctum asserting temporal as well as spritual supremacy of the Pope. "a necessity of salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff"
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