When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

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where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church). He became the secretary of Pope Damasus, who commissioned the Vulgate from him ...

Then there was Gregory the Great, it was during his term that the word ‘pope’ was almost exclusively applied to the Roman bishop and he believed the pope had supreme authority throughout the world.

[St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4, 39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:32-36.]" 1472. "To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence.