Doctrine that the Pope has supreme power over the whole Church
Not to be confused with Papal primacy or Papal temporal power.
This article is about the Catholic spiritual doctrine. For the doctrine of temporal authority in the Holy Roman Empire, see Universal power.
Pius IX opening the First Vatican Council. It is during this council that papal supremacy was proclaimed a dogma.
Papal primacy, supremacy and infallibility
Overview
Primacy of Peter & Papal primacy
Papal supremacy
Papal infallibility
First Vatican Council § Papal infallibility
Patriarchs compared to popes
Papal primacy
Episcopal see § Catholic Church
Apiarius of Sicca § Appeal to the bishop of Rome
Pentarchy § After the East–West Schism
Pope John XIX § Life
Gregory II Youssef § First Vatican Council
Ravenna Document
Eastern Orthodox opposition to papal supremacy
Ecumenical councils compared to popes
Conciliarity
Conciliarism § Modern conciliarism
Ecumenical council § Acceptance of the councils
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation § The Third Wall: Authority to Call a Council
Ultrajectines
Catholic episcopal councils compared to popes
Febronianism
Christus Dominus § Controversy
The Ratzinger Report
Political rulers compared to popes
Gallicanism
Patronato real
Josephinism
Febronianism
Cisalpinism
Appointment of Catholic bishops § Centralization of papal power
Concordat § List
Papal deposing power
Existing dogma compared to popes
Development of doctrine
Cum ex apostolatus officio
Pascendi Dominici gregis
Objections and controversy
Ecclesiastical differences between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church § Papal authority
Ignaz von Döllinger § Papal authority
Ultramontanism § Position of other apostolic churches
Papal infallibility § Objections
Old Catholic Church § First Vatican Council, Old Catholic Union of Utrecht
Sedevacantism
Josip Juraj Strossmayer § Catholic diplomacy
Ultrajectine
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Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered:[1] that, in brief, "the Pope enjoys, by divine institution, supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls."[2]
The doctrine had the most significance in the relationship between the church and the temporal state, in matters such as ecclesiastic privileges, the actions of monarchs and even successions.
^Paragraph 882 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997).
^Paragraph 937 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997).
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