The Donation of Constantine decreed that the bishop of what city would be the head of the Catholic Church?

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Answer 1

If you are asking what I think you are asking ...

Constantinople

Answer 2

This has been asked before The Donation of Constantine was a forgery that was suppsoed to give the Pope the eastern Empire.
from the Cathlic encylopedia at
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05118a.htm
This document is without doubt a forgery, fabricated somewhere between the years 750 and 850. As early as the fifteenth century its falsity was known and demonstrated. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (De Concordantiâ Catholicâ, III, ii, in the Basle ed. of his Opera, 1565, I) spoke of it as a dictamen apocryphum. Some years later (1440) Lorenzo Valla (De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio, Mainz, 1518) proved the forgery with certainty. Independently of both his predecessors, Reginald Pecocke, Bishop of Chichester (1450-57), reached a similar conclusion in his work, "The Repressor of over much Blaming of the Clergy", Rolls Series, II, 351-366. Its genuinity was yet occasionally defended, and the document still further used as authentic, until Baronius in his "Annales Ecclesiastici" (ad an. 324) admitted that the "Donatio" was a forgery, whereafter it was soon universally admitted to be such. It is so clearly a fabrication that there is no reason to wonder that, with the revival of historical criticism in the fifteenth century, the true character of the document was at once recognized.

The Bishop of Rome was the primate of the Church due to being the largest City and the site that both Peter and Paul were Myartered. Alexandria under the Pope of Alexandria was Second until the the time 3rd/4th eccumical council when Constantinople was given the postion of second. One of the reasons for the Oriental schism was due to Constantenople. The Schism of 1054 was mainly due to Constantinople and Rome having issues about the Role of the eccumincal patriarch that ended in schism and mutual excomunication.

Answer 3

From Wikipedia:
After the imperial capital was moved to Constantinople in AD 330 the eastern churches, especially the Bishop of Constantinople, started to assert pre-eminence by virtue of its imperial status.

The First Council of Constantinople (AD 381) suggested strongly that Roman primacy was already asserted; however, it should be noted that, because of the controversy over this claim, the pope did not personally attend this ecumenical council, which was held in the eastern capital of the Roman empire, rather than at Rome. It was not until 440 that Leo the Great more clearly articulated the extension of papal authority as doctrine, promulgating in edicts and in councils his right to exercise "the full range of apostolic powers that Jesus had first bestowed on the apostle Peter". It was at the ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451 that Leo I (through his emissaries) stated that he was "speaking with the voice of Peter". At this same council, an attempt at compromise was made when the Bishop of Constantinople was given a primacy of honour second only to that of the Bishop of Rome, because "Constantinople is the New Rome." Ironically, Roman papal authorities rejected this language since it did not clearly recognize Rome's claim to juridical authority over the other churches.

So, I would guess Rome or Constantinople...

I say Rome though...

Answer 4

The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. With the city of Rome being the center of government for the Roman empire, and with the Roman emperors living in Rome, the city of Rome rose to prominence in all facets of life. Constantine, and his successors, gave their support to the bishop of Rome as the supreme ruler of the church. Of course it is best for the unity of the Roman empire that the government and state religion be centered in the same location. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors. When the Roman empire collapsed, the popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman emperors – Pontificus Maximus.

Answer 5

The Donation of Constantine is a forgery and was designed to shore up papal interests and power. It granted Pope Sylvester I and his successors, as successors of St Peter, dominion over Rome and the Western Empire while Constantine retained imperial authority over the Eastern Empire from his capital of Constantinople.

Answer 6

Rome. As you might imagine, this wasn't accepted well by the current head of the church in Constantinople. It eventually led to the rift between the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic churches.

Answer 7

the head of the catholic church founded by jesus was st peter adn his successors continue to this day. the seat of authority is in rome-the holy see.

Answer 8

Jesus Christ appointed Peter to lead His church, not Constantine