When was Rome ruled?

Answer 1

It was not /is not the Catholics who ruled or rule Rome. Rome and Italy are Catholic. Therefore the people of Rome are Catholics. However, they do not rule Rome.

It was the papacy who became the ruler of Rome and the Papal States. This started in 756. It ended in 1870 when the state of the newly created Italy seized Rome and annexed the Papal States.

After the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, central Italy and Rome came under the rule of the eastern part of the Roman Empire which formed the Exarchate of Ravenna in a big part of central Italy (540-751). In 754 the Frankish king Pepin the Younger, in an alliance with the pope, descended into Italy from France, ended the rule northern Italy by the Lombard invaders, drove them out from territories they had conquered from the Exarchate of Ravenna (the area around the city of Rome, and part of central Italy) and donated it to the papacy. The popes became rulers of the city of Rome and these areas of central Italy which were then called the Papal States.

Answer 2

AncientRomewas ruled/had a system of rule throughout its 1,200 years of history. It was amonarchyfor 244 years (753 to 509 BC), a republic for 482 years (509 to 27 BC) and from 27 BConwardit was ruled by an emperor.