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Categories: Catholic theology and doctrine, History of the papacy, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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papal deposing power  Deposing power of the pope  deposing power  Deposing power of the papacy
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The papal deposing power was the most powerful tool of the political authority claimed by and on behalf of the Roman Pontiff, in medieval and early modern thought, amounting to the assertion of the Pope's power to declare a Christian monarch heretical and powerless to rule. Wikipedia
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The papal deposing power was the most powerful tool of the political authority claimed by and on behalf of the Roman Pontiff, in medieval and early modern thought, amounting to the assertion of the Pope's power to declare a Christian monarch heretical and powerless to rule. Wikipedia