Why was the pope an important christian leader?

Answer 1

belive it or not, popes were very important. When war went on, the pope would take a huge metal bat called a vecat and wack his oponets withit. however their weren't many popes because it was a dangourus job. the pope couldn't wear armor because it would slow himself (always a boy) down. Even the vecat was hollow to make it lighter but it could still easily split skulls and disarm oponents.

Answer 2

In the early middle ages the pope was extremely crucial in basically the foundation of the catholic church's administration. He got a lot of countries to pledge allegiance to the church and the church received a lot of land including about 20% of the land in France as well as a lot of money from the countries. He also gained extreme political power in doing this. The pope, during the mid middle ages, basically gained control in England as the king at that time indulged in what was considered to be immoral behavior. As a result, the pope threatened to take away the catholic rights of the people there (baptism, marriage and death rites) unless the king gave power to the pope, which he did.

Answer 3

The middle ages was based entirely on religion. They had discovered almost nothing scientific. They all thought that it was caused by God, and the pope being god's right hand man, well. That made him quite powerful.

Answer 4

It was believed that only the Pope had authority to interpret scripture.