Church History: Middle Ages - Feudalism/Popes

Lay leaders selecting bishops

• Interdict

• Excommunication

• Simony

• Lay Investitures

The buying and selling of Church offices and possessions.

• Interdict

• Nepotism

• Simony

• Lay Investitures

Passing on of Church lands and benefits to their children

• Interdict

• Nepotism

• Simony

• Lay investitures

The first of the reformer popes

• Leo IX

• Innocent III

• Gregory VII

• Nicholas II

This pope created the College of Cardinals to elect future Popes

• Leo IX

• Innocent III

• Gregory VII

• Nicholas II

This pope banned lay or imperial elections of bishops and popes

• Leo IX

• Innocent III

• Nicholas II

• Gregory VII

This pope initiated the Crusades

• Leo IX

• Innocent III

• Nicholas II

• Gregory VII

Which did the Fourth Lateran Council NOT enforce?

• The Seal of Confession

• Defined the doctrine of transubstantiation

• Annual confessions and communion during Easter

• Reform of clerical life

• Establishing only Men as priests

What was the primary reason why secular leaders wanted to be Pope?

• for Land

• So they can forgive their own sins

• for Church treasures

• So that they can create their own church doctrine

Which answer below is NOT true about St. Francis of Assisi

• Patron saint of animals

• Created the Crucifixion scene of Jesus

• Received stigmata

• Born into a wealthy family