Question

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In which of the following cities would people have most likely viewed the Byzantine emperor as the head of the Christian church? PLEASEE HELP ME!

Answer 1

Rome most likely would have been the place to best view the Byzantine Emperor.

Answer 2

The Byzantine Papacy was a period of Byzantine domination of the papacy from 537 to 752, when popes required the approval of the Byzantine Emperor for episcopal consecration, and many popes were chosen from the apocrisiarii (liaisons from the pope to the emperor) or the inhabitants of Byzantine Greece, Byzantine Syria, or Byzantine Sicily. Justinian I conquered the Italian peninsula in the Gothic War (535–554) and appointed the next three popes, a practice that would be continued by his successors and later be delegated to the Exarchate of Ravenna.

Answer 3

It depends. Before the Great Schism of 1054, Rome and many other cities would have seen the Byzantine emperor as the head of the Church because of the Byzantine Papacy.

After the Schism, however, Rome and other cities in the West would have held the Roman papacy as the spiritual head while other cities in the East under Byzantine influence would have continued to regard the Byzantine emperor and the patriarchs as the rightful leaders.