CRUCIADA A PATRA ȘI DETURNAREA SENSULUI EI
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEANING IN THE FORTH CRUSADE

Summary/Abstract: The young Giovanni Lotario, future Pope Innocent III, was born in Anagni in 1160. He was promoted to the rank of cardinal by Pope Clement III, his uncle. In 1198 he was elected pope, being animated by the desire to impose over the whole Christendom the suzerainty of the city of Rome. He preached the Fourth Crusade with a lot of enthusiasm and when the Constantinople has been conquered and plundered by the Western cavaliers in 1204, he imposed the supremacy of the Church of Rome in the capital of the Byzantine Empire. He took hold of the reorganization of the Byzantine Church under the authority of the bishops that depended of Rome. Following the Fourth Crusade, Pope Innocent III began the policy of forced submission of the Eastern Church.

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