Events Tagged: "church-state"

Pope Gregory VII issues Dictatus Papae - 27 propositions asserting papal supremacy over temporal rulers and exclusive right to depose emperors

Concordat of Worms - separation of spiritual and temporal investiture, foundation for dual legal systems

Constitutions of Clarendon codified - defining boundaries between ecclesiastical and royal jurisdiction in England

Statute of Provisors - English parliament limits papal appointments to English benefices, asserting national control over church property

Concordat of Bologna - French king gains right to appoint bishops, controlling vast church property as state resource