The only 100% Christian country would be the Vatican, where the Pope resides. The Catholic Church is the oldest Christian Church (the Papacy is traced all the way back to St. Peter the Apostle).
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No, the pope is the head of the papacy, the papacy is the government of the Roman Catholic Church.
The formulation of the question evinces a lack of understanding of what the papacy is. The papacy is the headship of the Catholic Church on earth. Jesus appointed st. Peter to this position, and this has been handed down to his successors to this very day. So the papacy, chronologically goes from 33 AD to 2011 thus far.
A:Martin Luther believed that the papacy needed to be reformed if corruption were to be eliminated from within the Catholic Church.
During the counter-reformation, the papacy was reformed to address corruption.
They stopped selling indulgences.
The Avignon Papacy turned the Catholic Church into somewhat of a political organization, centered around controlling people rather than leading them. One of their biggest faults was that they became materialistic and centered around money.
The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church and has no place in government.
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The Medicis were Christian. They felt that by patronizing Christian art it would help them gain favor with the powerful papacy as well as put them in God's good graces.
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