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Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: Peculiarities of the conception of 'sacred power' and its exercise between 1073 and 1303
266 SZ. A. SZUROMI name the empire-bishop, and his own competence over the introduction into the feudal estate was limited. Concerning the Roman territory, the emperor resigned every privilege.23 3. Seventy-six years later Cardinal Lotario di Segni took the Papal see as Innocent III (1198-1216).24 His plan was an extension of the Gregorian reform which can be summarized briefly by the Dictatus Papae (1075).25 The Pope radically condemned every single episcopal appointment which happened without canonical election, or without the approving of the Roman Pontiff.26 Therefore, it is not accidental that the Council of Lateran IV,27 which was convoked for 1215, clearly intended to designate the cathedral chapter alone as the competent body for electing a bishop,28 and this same interpretation was given by all the commentators in the glosses later atpostulaveris, secundum officii mei debitum auxilium tibi praestabo. Do tibi veram pacem et omnibus qui in parte tua sunt vel fuerunt tempore huius discordiae. MERCATI, A. (ed.), Racolta di concordati, 19. 23 (...) Electus autem regalia absque omni exactione per sceptrum a te recipiat et quae ex his hire tibi debet faciat. Ex aliis vero partibus imperii consecratus infra sex menses regalia absque omni exactione per sceptrum a te recipiat et quae ex his hire tibi debet faciat; exceptis omnibus quae ad Romanam ecclesiam pertinere noscuntur. De quibus vero mihi querimoniam feceris et auxilium postulaveris, secundum officii mei debitum auxilium tibi praestabo. Do tibi veram pacem et omnibus qui in parte tua sunt vel fuerunt tempore huius discordiae. Mercati, A. (ed.), Racolta di concordati, 19. 24 About Pope Innocent III, cf. TILLMANN, H., Innocenz III., Bonn 1954. 25 Cf. Dictatus papae, 3. Quod ille solus possit deponere episcopos vel reconciliare; 13. Quod illi liceat de sede ad sedem necessitate cogente episcopos transmutare; 21. Quod maiores causae cuiuscunque ecclesiae ad eam referri debeant. CASPAR, E. (ed.), Registrum Gregorii VII, 55a. FUHRMANN, H., Papst Gregor VII. und das Kirchenrecht: zum Problem des Dictatus Papae, in La riforma gregoriana e l'Europa (Studi Gregoriani 13), Roma 1989. 123-149. 26 Cf. Council of Lateran IV (1215), cc. 24, 26. 27 Cf. SZUROMI, Sz.A., The Constitutions of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) according to its Theological, Canonical and Historical Aspects, in Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 15 (2004) 185-199. 28 Cf. e.g. canon 25: Quisquis electioni de se factae per saecularis potestatis abusum consentire praesumpserit contra canonicam libertatem, et electionis commodo careat et inelegibilis fiat, nec absque dispensatione possit ad aliquam eligi dignitatem. Qui vero electionem huiusmodi, quam ipso iure irritam esse censemus, praesumpserint celebrare, ab officiis et beneficiis penitus per triennium suspendantur, eligendi tunc potestate privati. COD 247.
