Synonym: apostolic, apostolical, pontifical. Similar words: papaya, napalm, paper, newspaper, paper jam, papyrus, japan, apart. Meaning: ['peɪpl] adj. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
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31. Since he was already a papal vassal Sancho found the powers of the Church difficult to check.
32. His interests lay in power in the imperial court not in the papal court.
33. They stand above and beyond any particular attempt, papal or otherwise, definitively to interpret them.
34. Anselm supported Henry, and he did not make his support conditional on Henry's acceptance of the new papal decrees.
35. The idea of secular power in itself meant little before the propagandists of the eleventh-century papal reform mounted their assault on it.
36. Not for the first time, the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope.
37. The imprimatur was obtained from the Papal censor and the book was published in 1632.
38. The Uniates practised Eastern Orthodox rites but recognized papal authority.
39. Besides being one of Henry III's most frequent ambassadors to Rome, Alexander served many times as papal judge delegate.
40. Clerical subventions to Edward I did not end here, but in future they were to issue from papal taxation.
41. Otherwise, the towns were transferred in many cases from imperial to papal overlordship.
42. Burdensome as royal taxation was during the war, the clergy were mercifully free of papal taxation except on two occasions.
43. Another example of the tightening of papal authority concerned relics.
44. Further relatives were enlisted in the service of the pope in the Papal State.
45. Archbishop Stratford, however,(sentencedict.com) ignored several papal letters urging him to resist royal encroachments on alien priories.
46. Had he not himself acted thus after hearing the papal decree against lay investiture and clerical homage?
47. He had spent his early years as a priest in the papal service under Pius X, whom he canonized.
48. Yet neither man could rid himself entirely of the killing - fields mentality which had disfigured papal rule for so long.
49. When it was issued in 1234, with full papal approval, it was addressed to the masters and scholars of Bologna.
50. His papal decrees were the foundation of canon law until their update in 1917.
51. Though there were two papal legates, the Council was an Eastern affair, to solve an Eastern problem.
52. In the halls of power Cistercians became papal confessors and were used by the popes as legates and preachers.
53. Largely due to Bernard, they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court.
54. Firstly, he certainly thwarted some papal provisions by taking vigorous action against any bishop involved in the process.
55. Alexander Nevski's replies to the papal legates she had by heart.
56. It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates.
57. By 1257 he was a canon of Lichfield and a papal chaplain.
58. The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.
59. The natives are the ones manning the stalls selling papal T-shirts,(http://sentencedict.com/papal.html) key rings and statues.
60. The sixth-century papal sacristy used during Lent has been located in the former wine cellar of the convent.