Gregory first excommunicated Henry IV, head of the Holy Roman Empire, from the Roman Catholic Church because he had gone back on his word and refused to follow the pope’s orders. Henry then had to reclaim his title from the new emperor but Gregory, under pressure from Henry’s enemies, excommunicated Henry again.

A king governs a geo/political group of people. The Pope guides faithful Catholics around the world. So in term of people influenced, the pope is probably more “powerful”.

Why did Henry IV beg Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness? Henry begged for forgiveness because Pope Gregory VII excommunicated him because Henry IV had persuaded his bishops to say that Gregory had no real power.

false pretenses

In the Middle Ages, Popes and Kings had the most power. The Popes had great spiritual power. The pope was the head of the Christian Church in Western Europe. Nearly everyone in the Middle Ages belonged to this church.

The Bad Popes

• Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.
• Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

1075) claimed for the Pope “that it may be permitted to him to depose emperors” (12) and asserted the papal power to “absolve subjects from their fealty to wicked men” (27)….History.

Sovereign of the State of Vatican City “He’s a king! He’s a king of 29 acres,” says Tilley. “In previous centuries, the pope was the sovereign of the papal states, so they had political jurisdiction over much of central Italy.”

Pope Innocent

The most glamorous throne in the world floats in a golden sky in St Peter’s, the papal basilica in the Vatican. It is the Chair of Saint Peter, a relic encased by Bernini in the 17th century in gilt bronze and set aloft among shafts of golden metal light and swarming putti.

Hell, George Harrison said, “And while the pope owns 51 percent of General Motors, and the stock exchange is the only thing he’s qualified to quote us.” The pope is not only a representative for the Catholic church, but a symbol of their ideas and a builder of bridges.

Most of those lands have been lost, but the Pope is understood to own all the land of the Catholic Church’s institutions, religious orders and dioceses as monarch, on much the same basis as the Queen owns her acres. The estimated total of land held by the Pope is around 177 million acres.

The two were once one so originally there was no separation, and originally it was just the “Christian Church.” The Orthodox church is considered the original church now because they follow more of the old traditions than Roman Catholics do; more changes happened in the Catholic church after the east west schism than …

Both Catholics and Protestants are welcome to attend the Orthodox Mass but they CANNOT take Holy Communion, the Orthodox Priest is not allowed to give it to them.

According to practitioners, devotion to the Virgin Mary does not amount to worship, which is reserved for God. Both the Catholic and Orthodox traditions view Mary as subordinate to Christ, but uniquely so, in that she is seen as above all other creatures.

The list of the 10 largest private landowners is all heads of state. However, if you expand to the 15 largest private landowners, American billionaire Ted Turner just squeaks onto the list. King Letsie owns all the land, including the diamond mines, in his country.

Rankings by Total Assets

But as the current reigning monarch, the Queen also technically owns three British island territories—namely, the Isle of Man, and the two largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey—which together comprise her “Crown Dependencies.”

The king of Norway

The Crown Jewels of the British Monarch Officially, the Crown Jewels are priceless. They are not insured either, which means they’ve likely never been appraised. However, estimates put the entire collection at $4 billion. At her coronation on June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth wore both the St.