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Who held supreme authority in the christian church in most of Europe during the middle ages?
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∙ 13y ago
The short, simple answer is that the Pope had supreme authority in the Church.
Part of the problem with this is that there never was a time when all Orthodox Christians accepted papal supremacy, so the short, simple answer might be more than a bit too simple. And so it is a question that could be discussed at great length.
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