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Temporal jurisdiction (papacy)
Temporal jusdiction is a term used within Roman Catholicism to refer to past claims by popes to rule a territory as well as rule the Church. For over one millennium, popes ruled as sovereign over an amalgam of territories on the Italian peninsula known as the Papal States from the capital, Rome.
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