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Using a PoD after AD 100 (for the sake of picking a date) posit a way the Papacy could evolve into the office of Caliph, that is: a dynasty rule merged with faith leader for in theory, the entire Christian world. I know that this was basically the Byzantine Emperor in the east, but from the beginning it was Pope and Emperor or Patriarch and Emperor. So I'm thinking Emperor as Pope in a way that is like the Caliphate, where even when Baghdad was conquered the various dynasties still acknowledged him as Caliph, he was just a puppet for a while.
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