Over the years there have been many controversies between popes and emperors. Please specify one of them.
You need to be specific as many popes have had contoversies with emperors throughout the ages.
They could not agree on who could and could not appoint church officers, the secular emperor or the pope.
Please specify an emperor and a pope as there have been numerous controversies over the centuries.
The Investiture Controversy between the pop and the emperor was resolved by the Concordat of Worms.
ALS: Concordat of Worms
This was the investiture controversy. The pope wanted to stop the emperor ordaining (investing) clergymen to high positions in the German church because he thought that only the pope, as a prelate had the right to do this. The emperor was opposed to this.
the weakening and eventual break up of Germany. <----- Study Island
the pope and the emperor disagreed on who controlled a certain part of Rome, so the pope eventually banished the emperor from the church.
Henry, as the king, thought that he should appoint bishops in his kingdom. The pope felt that only the pope could appoint bishops. It is known as the investiture controversy.
Pope Gregory died leaving Henry iv to do as he pleased
The creation of the Holy Roman Empire restored the alliance between the pope and the emperor which had been established between Pope Leo III and Charlemagne. Pope John XII and Otto signed a document which declared the pope was the head of the church and Otto was the secular protector of the church.
The Roman emperor had to answer to the pope.
The Byzantine army supported the emperor. There was a schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches in the eleventh century. From that time onward the emperor was seen as the head of the Orthodox church, and the Pope as the head of the Catholic church.
The pope crowned the king and gave him a tittle of "Roman Emperor" because he crush the people who attacked the pope
The pope crowned the king and gave him a tittle of "Roman Emperor" because he crush the people who attacked the pope
Henry wanted the right to name new bishops in his kingdom. Gregory stated that only the pope could elevate bishops. It became known as the Lay Investiture Controversy.
He did not want people to think the pope had the power to choose who was emperor.