0 the position or authority of the Pope (= the leader of the Roman Catholic Church), or the length of time that a particular person is Pope
1 the position of the pope (= leader of the Roman Catholic Church)
Eventually, it seems that sheer exhaustion contributed to the papacy's decision to back down, but even here the peace that was forged was not straightforward.
He initiated the modern diplomatic role of the papacy in international affairs.
In the second section the focus turns toward relations with the papacy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.
It is not surprising that the papacy also took great interest in this case.
The papacy right through the thirteenth century maintained its position that a central bureaucracy had to be paid for.
This is more than a study of the lives of four popes, or of the changes in the institution of the papacy.
He took the then very radical view that the papacy should lose its temporal power.
The debates regarding the papacy's role, in all their complexity and acrimony, are part of a wider reality of shame and disorientation.