caesaropapism

See also: Caesaropapism

English

WOTD – 29 January 2022

Etymology

From caesar +‎ -o- +‎ papism,[1] 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).[2][3]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsiːzəɹəʊˈpeɪpɪzm̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsiːzəɹoʊˈpeɪpɪz(ə)m/
Hyphenation: cae‧sar‧o‧pap‧i‧sm

Noun

caesaropapism (countable and uncountable, plural caesaropapisms)

(government, religion) The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.
Synonyms: caesaropapacy, caesaropapalism, caesaropopism
- 2016, Peter H[amish] Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 148:
  Shari'a civil law and Ottoman secular fiscal and administrative practice were all combined with Byzantine Caesaropapism, entrenching the ruler as legislator and inhibiting the transition to the rule of law ultimately made in the Empire.

Alternative forms

Caesaro-Papism, Caesaro-papism, caesaro-papism
Caesaropapism
Cæsaro-Papism, Cæsaro-papism, cæsaro-papism
Cæsaropapism, cæsaropapism
Cesaro-Papism, Cesaro-papism, cesaro-papism
Cesaropapism, cesaropapism

Derived terms

caesaropapist

Translations

combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters

Asturian: cesaropapismu m
Belarusian: цэзарапапізм (cezarapapizm)
Breton: kezarpabouriezh f
Bulgarian: цезаропапизъм (cezaropapizǎm)
Catalan: cesaropapisme
Cebuano: sesaropapismo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 政教合一 (zh) (zhèngjiào héyī)
Czech: caesaropapismus (cs) m
Danish: Cæsareopapisme, Cæsaropapisme
Dutch: cesaropapie
Esperanto: cezaropapismo
French: césaropapisme (fr) m
German: Cäsaropapismus m
Greek: Καισαροπαπισμός (Kaisaropapismós)
Hebrew: קיסרופאפיזם‎
Hungarian: cezaropapizmus (hu)
Indonesian: kaesaropapisme
Interlingua: Cesaropapismo
Italian: cesaropapismo (it) m
Japanese: カエサロパピスム, 皇帝教皇主義 (こうていきょうこうしゅぎ)
Korean: 황제교황주의 (hwangjegyohwangjuui)
Macedonian: цезаропапизмот (cezaropapizmot), царопапизам (caropapizam), кајзеропапизам (kajzeropapizam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: cæsaropapisme
Polish: cezaropapizm m
Portuguese: cesaropapismo m
Romanian: cezaropapism
Russian: цезаропапи́зм (ru) m (cezaropapízm), цезарепапи́зм (ru) m (cezarepapízm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цезаропапѝзам m
Roman: cezaropapìzam (sh) m
Slovak: cézaropapizmus, štátne cirkevníctvo
Slovene: cezaropapizem
Spanish: cesaropapismo m
Swedish: caesareopapism
Thai: จักรพรรดิสันตะปาปานิยม
Turkish: sezaropapizm
Ukrainian: цезаропапізм (cezaropapizm), цезарепапізм (uk) (cezarepapizm)
Welsh: Cesar-Babaeth f

References

“Caesaro-papism, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018.
Justi Henning Boehmeri [i.e., Justus Henning Böhmer] (1714–1736) Jus ecclesiasticum Protestantium, usum modernum iuris canonici iuxta seriem decretalium ostendens, et ipsis rerum argumentis illustrans, adiecto duplice indice [Ecclesiastical Law of the Protestants, Showing the Modern Use of Canon Law according to a Series of Decretals, and Illustrating the Arguments Themselves, with the Addition of a Double Index], Halle, Saxony-Anhalt: Orphanotropheum, OCLC 730956907.
Kenneth Pennington (2010), “Caesaropapism”, in Robert L. Fastiggi, editor, New Catholic Encyclopedia. Supplement 2010, volume I, Detroit, Mich.; Washington, D.C.: Gale, Cengage Learning, in association with the Catholic University of America, →ISBN, page 183.