How to pronounce“caesaropapism”in English
But in the Orthodox church they didn’t have that problem because the Patriarch was always appointed by the Emperor.
So it was pretty clear who had control over the church, so much that they even have a word for it- caesaropapism: Caesar over Pope.
But the fact that in Rome there was no emperor after 476 meant there was no one to challenge the Pope, which would profoundly shape European history
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Definitions of “caesaropapism”
The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.
“Shari'a civil law and Ottoman secular fiscal and administrative practice were all combined with Byzantine Caesaropapism, entrenching the ruler as legislator and inhibiting the transition to the rule of law ultimately made in the Empire.”
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