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The next Digitized by VjOOQIC HILDEBRAND 145 step was to increase the power of the pope. The priests having been made soldiers, and the bishops generals, the pope must be commander-in-chief. The pope, said Hildebrand, is the universal bishop. He may depose other bishops, if he will. He alone may make laws for the Church. He is to crown all kings and emperors, and, if they misbehave, depose them. He may absolve subjects from their allegiance. He is the supreme head of all govern- ment, the king ...of kings and lord of lords, the ruler of the world. Some of these claims had been made before. Gradually, through the confused centuries when the old empire was being broken down and the new empire was being builded on its ruins, the position of the bishop of the greatest city of the world had become more and more important. Hildebrand took these theories and put them into action. The one man, by the might of his strong will and the power Digitized by VjOOQIC 146 HILDEBRAND of his blameless life, confronted the whole amazed and angry society about him, de- clared with a definiteness which could not be mistaken that he was the master of all kingdoms and all churches, and pro- ceeded to act upon the declaration.
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