papacy's
Pope's office's (possessive)
Papacy's is the possessive form of papacy, the office or authority of the pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
It typically modifies nouns relating to institutional power, history, or influence: the papacy's stance on contraception, the papacy's role in medieval politics, the papacy's long history of diplomatic relations.
Power to enforce obedience
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- infallibilityIncapacity for mistakes
- successionFollowing in order
lineage · dynasty · primacy · sovereignty · governance · administration · curia · Vatican
Prayer seeking divine favor
- teachingsTransmitted knowledge or principles
- encyclicalsOfficial pope's doctrinal letters
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
guidance · shepherd · flock · faithful · sacraments · liturgy · devotion · prayers
Of the Middle Ages
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- AvignonFrench papal seat
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
Borgia · Medici · crusades · investiture · concordat · temporal · power · influence
Official diplomatic representatives
- concordatsFormal agreements, often papal
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- negotiationsFormal discussion seeking agreement
mediation · relations · envoys · delegations · accords · interventions · neutrality · peacekeeping
authority
Power to enforce obedience
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- infallibilityIncapacity for mistakes
succession · lineage · dynasty · primacy · sovereignty · governance · administration · curia · Vatican · hierarchy
blessing
Prayer seeking divine favor
- teachingsTransmitted knowledge or principles
- encyclicalsOfficial pope's doctrinal letters
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
dogma · guidance · shepherd · flock · faithful · sacraments · liturgy · devotion · prayers · canonization
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- AvignonFrench papal seat
- schismFormal organizational fracture
Reformation · Borgia · Medici · crusades · investiture · concordat · temporal · power · influence · decline
ambassadors
Official diplomatic representatives
- concordatsFormal agreements, often papal
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
negotiations · mediation · relations · envoys · delegations · accords · interventions · neutrality · peacekeeping · humanitarian
papacy'sCaesar's
Of the Roman autocrat
parliament's · republic's · democracy's · emperor's · monarchy's