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Bookmark or Share- Papal States | Italian History, Papacy & Politics | BritannicaPapal States, territories of central Italy over which the pope had sovereignty from 756 to 1870. Included were the modern Italian regions of Lazio (Latium), Umbria, and Marche and part of Emilia-Romagna, though the extent of the territory, along with the degree of papal control, varied over the centuries. Early history
- Papal States - WikipediaThe Papal States (/ ˈ p eɪ p ə l / PAY-pəl; Italian: Stato Pontificio; Latin: Dicio Pontificia), officially the State of the Church, [7] were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 to 1870. [8]
- Papal States summary | BritannicaPapal States, Italian Stati Pontifici, Territories of central Italy over which the pope had sovereignty from 756 to 1870. The extent of the territory and the degree of papal control varied over the centuries.
- Papal States - New World EncyclopediaThe Papal States comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense before 1870. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy. The papal states were also referred to as the patrimony of Saint Peter (Patrimonium Sancti Petri).
- Papal states - AcademiaLabThe Papal States were definitively dismembered and reduced to the city of Rome and its surroundings, where the Pope, under the protection of French troops, continued for the moment to exercise his declined civil authority.
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