And The investiture controversy ended in the Pope’s favour.So the monarchs no longer had the right to choose bishops. That right now belonged to the pope.How would that be different from the current, 14th century, practices? Appointing your own bishops was I believe already a more or less informal practice, which was piece and center of the investiture controversy.
Yes GALLICAN Church. Louis XIV IOTL broke the Pope’s power over the French Church by taking back the right to administrate the Catholic Church in France by retaking control over Church appointments, made it illegal for Church officials to travel to Rome and meet the Pope without his permission, made it illegal for the Church in France to criticise him, the King having ownership over the revenues of empty sees etc etc.As for Gallican church? Perhaps you meant Anglican. Gallican church was, I understand, more an informal epithet to the informal political autonomy of the French clergy, but that did not cover liturgical or theological autonomy.
Back in the middle ages, the (proto)national monarchs already appointed their "candidates" to the bishoprics, and the pope confirmed them if the relations were good enough, or excommunicated the whole kingdom if not.
That would be part of it.At any rate, if you get everything that was mentioned, you are de facto independent from the Catholic Church while having all the rights to interfere with it, including selecting the next Pope , influence over all the other Catholic kings, monetary/military aid in the name of fighting the infidel, and without having all these other Christian rulers thinking you are a schismatic.It’s an insidious move where you look like you are submitting to the Church when you are taking over it from the inside.So, in the Lascarid case, or more precisely for the Basilian dominated church in the Lascarid empire, the question is not so much about the right to appoint bishops, which every other powerful monarch in Europe did as they see fit, but the liturgical question, ie the Greek rite and language, and their acceptance or not as a part of the Catholic christendom, as opposed to being crypto-orthodoxes.
Of course, this does compound with the traditional power struggle over appointments of bishops and church revenues, and does seriously amplify it.
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