# caesaropapism

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌsiːzəɹəʊˈpeɪpɪzm̩/

## Definitions
1. The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.

## Etymology
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).

## Source
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