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Melanchthon.
Оглавление'As a bishop presides over several Churches, no one can think it wrong for a pontiff to preside at Rome over several bishops. The Church must have leaders to examine those who are called to the ministry, to judge in ecclesiastical causes, and watch over the teaching of the ministers.... If there were no such bishops, they ought to be created.639 One sole pontiff may even serve to maintain harmony of faith between the different nations of christendom.'
Francis was delighted; but the more decided evangelicals looked upon this idea of an evangelical pope as a dream to be consigned to the Utopia described by Sir Thomas More. An accessory declaration of another kind was to please the king even more.
