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papacy

/pey-puh-see/US // ˈpeɪ pə si //UK // (ˈpeɪpəsɪ) //

教皇制度,教皇,教皇制,教皇的地位

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pa·pa·cies.Roman Catholic Church.

    • : the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope.
    • : the system of ecclesiastical government in which the pope is recognized as the supreme head.
    • : the period during which a certain pope is in office.
    • : the succession or line of the popes.

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Examples

  • The persons with the greatest interest in appearing strong in front of the papacy were the heads of neighboring states at the time.

  • At the end of this one, Francis gave what many said was the best speech of his papacy.

  • The Invention of Peter is not the first book to question the role of Peter and the foundations of the Papacy.

  • Each edition of the magazine will include a new chapters to be torn out and collected to form a book of the Pope Francis papacy.

  • Kertzer credits John Paul II with opening the files on the Pius XI papacy, in 2002, which made him decide to embark upon the book.

  • But, then again, the changes in store under this papacy have only just begun.

  • Jacobitism and the Papacy had become in most people's minds closely connected ideas.

  • Cesare Balbo in Piedmont was pleading for the same mild policy, without its faith in the Papacy.

  • The winning of Rome meant the downfall of the Papacy, the triumph of liberty of conscience, the dawn of a new religion.

  • Pisa was perhaps influenced, too, in her choice of the Ghibelline side by the interference of the Papacy against her in Corsica.

  • And probably because the rose typified secrecy, while the cross was a protest against the tyranny and superstition of the Papacy.