Caesaropapism
cae·sa·ro·papism
noun
1.
the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters
Origin
From caesar + -o- + papism, probably modelled after New Latin caesaro-papia, coined by the German ecclesiastical jurist Justus Henning Böhmer (1674-1749) in his work Jus ecclesiasticum Protestantium (Ecclesiastical Law of the Protestants, 1714-1736).
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