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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The supremacy of the secular power over ecclesiastical matters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters

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  • With the institutionalization of concept of velayat-e faqih, a state-sanctioned push toward a form of "caesaropapism" was initiated,

    MRZine.org 2009

  • With the institutionalization of concept of velayat-e faqih, a state-sanctioned push toward a form of "caesaropapism" was initiated,

    MRZine.org 2009

  • With the institutionalization of concept of velayat-e faqih, a state-sanctioned push toward a form of "caesaropapism" was initiated,

    MRZine.org 2009

  • In Christian history it is known as caesaropapism.

    Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoria 2008

  • In contrast, the Russians are currently rediscovering Muscovy's Byzantine legacy of caesaropapism.

    Democratic Ukraine, Autocratic Russia: Why? 2009

  • Tibet was a caesaropapism heocratic Regime before 1949 where your holy Dalai Lama peel live children's skin for his birthday celebration and the monks and nobles who consistute less than

    Boston.com Top Stories 2009

  • The Church's autonomy from political power was asserted gradually and painstakingly, but irreversibly, despite the recurring waves of caesaropapism, fundamentalism, and anticlericalism, becoming one of the main pillars of modern Western civilization.

    Tea at Trianon 2008

  • a renewed period of turbulence; and in the tenth cen - tury the papacy, having no longer an emperor to pro - tect it, came to “the saddest period in its history” when it met something worse than “caesaropapism,” becom - ing the victim and the plaything of the local Roman aristocracy.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • a long alliance between the papacy and the prede - cessors of Charlemagne had resulted in the re-creation of an “empire” — one in which Charlemagne was able to exercise a sort of “caesaropapism,” controlling the

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

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  • The direct control by kings or emperors over the church in territories under their own jurisdiction (and the political theory justifying this practice), as in the Byzantine Empire, the Russian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and England after the 1534 schism.

    August 7, 2007

  • Sounds like a most unpleasant medical procedure to me.

    August 7, 2007

  • Doesn't it? Having your papism removed must be awfully painful. ;->

    August 7, 2007

  • In this so disconsolate season,

    When fear tries to rule over reason,

    Is caesaropapism

    Refreshing escapism

    Compared to the rumors of treason.

    July 22, 2018