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and download it today. Thank you for listening to the history of the papacy. I'm your host, Steve. We are on Facebook and Twitter, and you can find both by searching for A2Z

history. This might look like episode 100 to you, but it is not. If you include our sidetrack

episodes, we are rapidly approaching 200 episodes. A special announcement today is we are back

on Patreon. Click on the link in the show

notes or search in Patreon for the history of the papacy podcast to learn more about the new

and improved Patreon experience. The tiers are similar as before, but with even more benefits.

Plus, you are helping to support the show, which is huge.

There's a lot that goes on to keep this show going, not only monetary, but a huge time

commitment, and it really helps every little bit you can do to support the show.

And in that vein, before we get too far, I'd like to thank Terry for his kind and generous donation on PayPal.

The Agora podcaster of the month is the new member of the newest member of the network, Sam Hume, of two podcasts,

the history of witchcraft and Pax Britannica. You can find links to both in the show notes.

Now on to today's podcast episode. In the last episode, we wrapped up a major phase in the papacy,

the Byzantine domination of the papacy. That era was incredibly important for the evolution of the Roman papacy as an institution.

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