According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

After the death of Pope Urban VII on 27 September 1590, the Spanish ambassador Olivares presented the conclave a list of the seven cardinals who would be acceptable to his master Philip II of Spain.

As a result Bacon sent the Pope his Opus Majus, which presented his views on how the philosophy of Aristotle and the new science could be incorporated into a new Theology.

This affirmed the importance of Sacred Scripture as attested by Providentissimus Deus by Pope Leo XIII and the writings of the Saints, Doctors, and Popes throughout Church history but also approved historically conditioned interpretation of Scripture as presented in Pius XII's 1943 encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu.

Lilio's brother Antonio presented the manuscript to Pope Gregory XIII ; it was passed to the calendar reform commission in 1575.

In January 1520, he visited Italy at the invitation of Pope Leo X, to whom he presented his latest work De primate Petri adversus Ludderum ( Ingolstadt, 1520 ) for which he was rewarded with the nomination to the office of papal protonotary, although his efforts to urge the Curia to decisive action against Luther were unsuccessful for some

When this was refused, the Pope threatened an interdict on account of the property laws and the imprisonment of ecclesiastics, which threat was presented to the Senate on Christmas 1605.

Vigilius was chosen by Pope Boniface II as his successor and presented to the clergy assembled in St. Peter's Basilica.

There he was received with marked favor by the Pope, who presented him with a medal and golden chain.

In addition, the even more recent Turkish incursions into Anatolia and northern Syria were certainly viewed as devastating by Eastern Christian chroniclers, and it is plausible they were presented as such by the Byzantines to the Pope in order to solicit the aid of European Christians.

With the Scottish nobility having requested Vatican support of their cause, Edward on his return to Caerlaverock was presented with a missive directed to him by Pope Boniface VII.

In 1148 he was present at the Council of Reims, presided over by Pope Eugene III, and was probably presented by Bernard of Clairvaux to Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, under whose sponsorship he returned to England about 1153, having spent some time in Rome as secretary to the English pope Adrian IV, Nicholas Breakspear.

The book Poem of the Man God received praise from Pope Pius XII's confessor ( Augustin Bea ), and was presented to Pius XII during a special audience in 1948 in which he reportedly approved it, and the Servite priests present signed an affidavit to that effect.

After travelling to Rome to receive his pallium, the symbol of his authority as an archbishop, William discovered that Thurstan had arrived before him, and had presented a case against William's election to Pope Callixtus II.

After the conquest of Heidelberg, the Protestant churches were closed, the university was closed, and at the request of Maximilian, the great library, the famous Bibliotheca Palatina ( 3500 manuscripts ), was presented as a Thank you gift to Pope Gregory XV for the 620, 000 guilders he had provided for financing of the campaigns of the Catholic League.

The monks opposed this, but after she was presented to the Pope, he too declared that she should become an opera singer.

He questioned the absolute authority of the Spanish king and challenged numerous ideas presented by the Church, including the absolute power of the Pope, the virgin birth, and clerical celibacy.

André Vernet, who edited Bernard's Cosmographia, believed that he lived from 1085 to 1178 ; the only certain date in his life is 1147, when the Cosmographia was supposedly presented to Pope Eugene III.

Tiara presented to Pope Benedict XVI on 25 May 2011, but not used by him

Popes were not restricted to a particular tiara: for example, photographs on this page show Pope John XXIII, on different occasions, wearing the tiara presented to him in 1959, Pope Pius IX's 1877 tiara, and Pope Pius XI's 1922 tiara.

* Hanno, or Annone, was a white elephant presented by king Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X on the occasion of his coronation in 1514.

“…. the Catechism has raised throughout the world, even among non-Christians, and confirms its purpose of being presented as a full, complete exposition of Catholic doctrine, enabling EVERYONE to know what the Church professes, celebrates, lives, and prays in her daily life .” – Pope John Paul II ( CCC pg xiv )

It closed with a series of ritual acclamations honouring the reigning Pope, the Popes who had convoked the Council, the emperor and the kings who had supported it, the papal legates, the cardinals, the ambassadors present, and the bishops, followed by acclamations of acceptance of the faith of the Council and its decrees, and of anathema for all heretics.

" Pope Pius appointed a commission of cardinals to assist him in interpreting and enforcing the decrees.

Exceptions are bulls of canonization and decrees of ecumenical councils, which the Pope signs with the formula, " Ego N. Episcopus Ecclesiae catholicae ", without the numeral, as in " Ego Benedictus Episcopus Ecclesiae catholicae " ( I, Benedict, Bishop of the catholic / universal Church ).

When the council ended in September 681 the decrees were sent to the Pope, but Agatho had died in January.

These decrees, and others made by preceding Popes, were confirmed by Pope Clement XI ( 1700 – 21 ) in 1704.

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

Members of the synod express their opinions on matters on an individual basis ( i. e. no decrees or resolutions are issued by the synod ), but the Pope, at his option, can grant it that power, in which case its decrees or resolutions are approved and promulgated by him alone ( can.

* August 7, 1814 – Pope Pius VII decrees the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum reestablishing the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.

* August 7 – Pope Pius VII decrees the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum reestablishing the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.

* 1274 – Pope Gregory X decrees that conclaves ( meetings during which the electors have no contact with the outside ) should be used for papal elections, reforming the electoral process which had taken over three years to elect him.

* May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered west of the Azores are Spanish.

* Pope Gregory X decrees that conclaves ( meetings during which the electors have no contact with the outside ) should be used for papal elections, reforming the electoral process which had taken over 3 years to elect him.

Pope Liberius repudiates the Arian creed and declares that the Council of Arminium had no authority to issue decrees.

In the following November the council elected the ambitious Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, as antipope under the name of Felix V. The conduct of France and Germany seemed to warrant this action, for King Charles VII of France had introduced the decrees of the Council of Basel, with slight changes, into France through the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges ( 7 July 1438 ), and the Diet of Mainz had deprived the Pope of most of his rights in the Empire ( 26 March 1439 ).

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

While an assembly of the Synod of Bishops thus expresses its collective wishes, it does not issue decrees, unless in certain cases the Pope authorizes it to do so, and even then an assembly's decision requires ratification by the Pope.

Prohibitions made by other congregations ( mostly the Holy Office ) were simply passed on to the Congregation of the Index, where the final decrees were drafted and made public, after approval of the Pope ( who always had the possibility to condemn an author personally — only a few examples, such as Lamennais and Hermes ).

He accepted the conditions of peace between East and West concluded by his predecessor, Patriarch John II with Pope Hormisdas ; ratifying them at a council at Constantinople, where he accepted also the decrees of Chalcedon.

In a decree signed on 23 March 1656, Pope Alexander VII accepted practices " favorable to Chinese customs ", reinforcing 1615 decrees which accepted the usage of the Chinese language in liturgy, a notable exception to the contemporary Latin Catholic discipline which had generally forbidden the use of local languages.

In 1939, a few weeks after his election to the papacy, Pope Pius XII ordered the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to relax certain aspects of Clement XI's and Benedict XIV's decrees.

Facilitating their goals was the Padroado Real, a series of treaties and decrees in which the Pope conferred upon the Portuguese government certain authority in ecclesiastical matters in the foreign territories they conquered.