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The Influence of the Church Turkey
The Influence of the Church TurkeyThe power of the emperor
and the power of the church developed in parallel
fashion. As the emperor became more powerful, the church,
the owner of the land, also gained in power. When the
Latin an the Eastern Church of Constantine separated, the
patriarch of Constantinople had thirty metropolitans
(cardinals and 450 bishops attached to it). The church
was powerful, both in the government and among the
people. The patriarch was selected by the emperor. The
emperor, in turn, was crowned by the patriarch. When he
empire began to lose power in the eleventh century, the
church also began to weaken. By the time of the defeat of
the Byzantines to the Ottomans, the number of bishops had
decreased to sixty seven. Turkey
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