A lot happened with the papacy between the times of 500 and 1500 CE. It gained its significance as time went on, starting out as virtually nothing and ending up as a major power, ups and downs in between. These changes were due to both events and people, both outside and inside the Church. Essentially, it all began with Pope Leo the Great and the legacy that he left behind. This is where the popes' prestige all …showed first 75 words of 857 total…

…showed last 75 words of 857 total…and achieved its own identity to the poeple. Throughout the times, various popes had proven the absolute importance of the papacy and it would be a major player in life from there on out. Not to say that the Ninth century was the end of papal problems, by no means was this true, but it was the end of the fundamental formation of the territory. Papacy had, in fact, become an undeniable reality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**