Caesaropapism.

In history and the rise off the Christan church, there would be a time a great trial and great struggle against either different people or different groups. In the beginnings of the Church communication took a long time. For example, to send a message from Constantinople to Rome would take numerous of weeks. An important message pertaining to church issues could takes weeks to get to its destination and it might be too late when the message arrives. Important matters such as church or civic would come too late to do anything about the matter. When the Church was beginning, the Christians were spread throughout the empire and at times they believed different things that they were calling Christian but were in reality not. At the time in history, the Church and State were not separated, thus it created chaos between who was to control what.
At times civic leaders would make Church decisions which is classified as caesaropapism. Caesaropapism was originally created in the Byzantine Empire in its efforts to combine the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Emperor under one throne. Other cases of caesaropapism have came up past the years of the Roman Empire's fall. In Medieval times, the Church and State were not separated. Taxes would go to the Church as well as the government. Examples would be King Henry VIII taking over the Church in England.

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