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A:The Roman Catholic Church describes the Pope as the vicar of Christ on earth.

However, there is no such title mentioned in the New Testament or the writings of the early church and it was Gregory VII who, 1000 years later, advocated the notion that the Pope is Christ's Vicar.

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