| Show ecclesiastical HISTORY TORY the protestant episcopal church king kin J john bif and the pope when the norman william invaded england in 1066 he det out on his expedition both with let patent and a blessing from pope alexander who thought through william to bring the english church into subjection to himself but when the norman had bad got himself fairly seated upon tho the throne ho he took ecclesiastical aff affairs lairs direct i ly into bia his own hands deprived the anglo saxon prelates and hopoi appointed nt bishops to suit himself he strictly forbade the people to ac knowledge know lego lege any one as pope popo or to publish letters from rome alexander was keenly disappointed to find that william instead of yield ing to his supremacy ignored his claims and with headstrong independence pen dence managed the affa affairs airs of church as well as the affairs of state the church of england edgland maintained its independence of the papal power for two CeD centuries 1011 long k er until the final blow was given to its liberty when king john gave himself his church and his king dom dolia to 6 tope pope innocent III innocent was a man of surprising genius and large ambition and left nothing undone to eul enlarge aiger and strengthen the dominion of the roman see the opportunity 11 soon oon occurred to make a heavy stroke in england hubert the thel arch archs bishop of canterbury died and the canons of christ church secretly elected reginald his successor and sent him off to rome to be consecrated without the knowledge of the tile king when john found it out he was fit furious rious but innocent eaid taid he must take it quietly and innocent happened to have the most power the king kept raging but the pope tamed him down somewhat by fulminating mina ting an interdict in 1208 by which the nation was deprived deprive dof of all rites ot pubic worship no bell was heard no taper was lighted no service was performed no church was open the next year john was excommunicated and three years afterward in 1212 innocent absolved the kings subject subjects 3 from allegiance and invited philip the F fair air of france to come in and take johns crown through the sheer force of combined temporal and a spiritual 1 powers john w was a s campst compelled ed to yield and in 1213 3 i after a long and desperate dw struggle of more than six hundred years england was forced to acknowledge the supremacy of tho the pope extract from article by rev reab G A B miller in the contributor for nov 1886 |
