Ego sum Caesar, ego sum imperator. This phrase was not uttered by an emperor but by a pope.
This fact does not surprise us, if we have in mind the pope who said t a pope as special as Boniface the VIII was. This Pope was accused of idolatry after his death. it would be a mistake to consider these words as expression of a selfish man. No. By, no means. This expression perfectly fixes with the church believes about their power on the earth. Let’s get deep in this business and let’s remind that Innocence the II was defined as The Caesar and sovereign over this entire worldly world.
F we go back in time even more into the past, Gregory VIII proposed and carried on a reform called Dictatus Papae. In this text, the basis o f the church was settled by saying that the church was a divine institution, and that temporal power of kingdoms would be subjected to the power of God on the earth, that’s under the pope’ s rules.
This fact does not surprise us, if we have in mind the pope who said t a pope as special as Boniface the VIII was. This Pope was accused of idolatry after his death. it would be a mistake to consider these words as expression of a selfish man. No. By, no means. This expression perfectly fixes with the church believes about their power on the earth. Let’s get deep in this business and let’s remind that Innocence the II was defined as The Caesar and sovereign over this entire worldly world.
F we go back in time even more into the past, Gregory VIII proposed and carried on a reform called Dictatus Papae. In this text, the basis o f the church was settled by saying that the church was a divine institution, and that temporal power of kingdoms would be subjected to the power of God on the earth, that’s under the pope’ s rules.
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