Unlike the Eastern and Western dioceses, which are composed of many secular states, the Middle Diocese of the Church of the Father has only one country, the Papal States, and the heart of the Papal States is located in the former capital of the Ancient Tairo Empire, Taylor.

In the 5th century of the Christian calendar, the Sitero Empire was constantly invaded by the northern barbarians and was finally destroyed. Its original territory was left unowned, and the Siteros were wantonly enslaved and slaughtered by barbarians. At such a critical juncture, the Church of the Father gradually transformed from a religious force to a political force.

They organized defeated legions and fleeing civilians to occupy castles to resist the invasion, sent a mission of monks to the Eastern Tairo Empire to ask for reinforcements, mobilized a large number of death-defying clergy to go to the barbarian army to preach and preach, and succeeded in converting a large number of enemies to the Cult of the Heavenly Father.

In such a time of turmoil and strife, the Church of the Father became a pioneer and leader in spreading the gospel and defending against foreign enemies.

In the 6th century of the Christian calendar, the wars that lasted for nearly 100 years gradually came to an end. The barbarians, under the resistance of the church and the world, retreated to the north. In the original territory of the Sitairo Empire, only three military forces remained: the barbarian kingdom that converted to the Church of the Heavenly Father occupied the western region, the old army and people of Citero led by the Church of the Heavenly Father occupied the central region, and the army of the Eastern Tairo Empire and the Orthodox Church, the church of its faith, occupied the western part.

At the beginning of the 7th century, the Church of the Father re-elected the Emperor on the site of Taylor, the former capital of the Empire, with the aim of restoring the glory of Thero. However, the Orthodox Church argued that Citero's bloodline had been severed and did not recognize the legitimacy of the new emperor. Since then, there has been the most serious conflict between the two churches since their separation.

The Most Orthodox Church in Eastern Taylor no longer recognizes the Church of the Father as the papal status alongside it. The Church of the Heavenly Father directly and unilaterally excommunicated the Emperor of the Eastern Tairo Empire. The two churches, which were once of the same roots, have since embarked on the road of rupture.

In the 8th century, the Church of the Father united with the barbarian kingdoms converted to the west, and fought a series of territorial disputes, faithful contentions, and ideological struggles with the Most Orthodox Church entrenched in the east, and finally recaptured large areas of the diocese.

With the gradual retreat of the eastern powers, the Church of the Heavenly Father fulfilled its agreement to cede part of the land and goods to the western kingdom, but on the other hand, it used diplomatic means and political tactics to divide, provoke, and instigate the western kingdom, causing it to fall into a long-term division and war.

At the end of the 8th century and the beginning of the 9th century in the Church of the Father, the Pope crowned the secular emperor of the Papal States as "the great emperor entrusted by God to rule the Taylor Empire", which completely put the two sects in a situation where they were incompatible, and at the same time announced the official establishment of the "Papal State".

Unlike the Eastern emperors, who could meddle in ecclesiastical affairs, the secular emperors of the Papal States had no right to interfere in the Church, but were only responsible for the management of secular affairs. The power to transfer troops and appoint and dismiss personnel is entirely vested in the Pope of the Church of the Father, who can even directly remove the secular emperor by excommunication. Thus, in the Papal States, the Pope is the one who becomes the king in the truest sense of the word.

However, the good times were short-lived.

From the 10th century onwards, the prestige of the Papal States declined due to a series of events. One of the most famous events is that several women among the nobles of the city of Taylor took control of the Holy See by becoming mistresses of the Pope, and their sons, as well as their sons' sons, were made popes. The period from 903 to 963 A.D. is known as the Pornocracy period.

During this period, the prestige of the Church of the Father was greatly damaged, the power of the Orthodox Church was looming, the Western Kingdom was given some respite, and the war gradually ended.

In the middle of the 11th century, the Reformed gradually gained a foothold in the Church of the Father, and launched a decades-long church reform movement, reinvigorating the increasingly corrupt church morality, opposing the control of theocracy by the laity, and opposing the buying and selling of the clergy. The movement greatly increased the prestige of the Church as well as the Pope.

The movement also marked the resurgence of the Church of the Father and the further strengthening of the papal secular power.

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Time flies, and the time has come to May 25, 1170 in the Epoch......

The capital of the Papal States, Ciudad Taylor, the Church of the Cardinals.

"Lord Aarrour, you seem to be in a good mood. The young man in the black deacon robe, sitting on the metasequoia chair by the fire in the cardinal's hall, leaning back against the cashmere wool cushion, looked at the sixty-year-old man in the cardinal robe on the desk and said with a smile.

There were only these two people in the room, and the old man had no intention of hiding his emotions, and while looking at the paper in his hand, he tapped the table and laughed: "Tristan, it's not because of these things you gave me!

The man known as Tristan closed the book in his hand, nodded and said, "Those troubles in the east have taken up too much of our energy. I never thought that such a guy would pop up in the west. ”

"The manufacturing equipment for refining silver, the justification of alchemy at the trial, and the recent uproar of crystal relics......" Arrbrough scraped the groove of the back ear with his knuckles, shook his head and smiled: "The little guy is only fifteen years old, and he can already make such a fuss, no wonder even the Pope has mentioned him several times." ”

"But we have two things that we really owe him to thank for. One is alchemy, because of his performance at the trial, and those in the Holy See who originally had a strong opposition to alchemy have been loosened, and the other is the crystal relic, because of the relics he sent with the ancient inscription of Taylor, we will not fall behind in the "Shuoyuan debate" with the "Orthodox". ”

Arrborough took out a document from the drawer under the desk and shook it towards the deacon: "Regarding the crystal relic, the 'Public Opinion Institute' doesn't see it that way. They did their investigation, and the little guy may have mastered the process of making holy relics, and the so-called excavation of antiquities is just an excuse. ”

The man put the book on his lap and straightened up: "What is the reason for this?

"Probably not, there is no evidence that any holy relics have been sold. Aarbrough leaned his body back against the back, relaxed his body, and suddenly changed the subject: "In the past few years, the days of the church have been stable, and many people think that the danger is gone. Little did they know that the church was in the most dangerous of times. We have the self-proclaimed orthodox 'Orthodox' to the east, the barbarians on the north, the kings in the west more and more restless, and the south ...... Those pagans in the south......"

Tristan lowered his head and said, "I heard that the guy named Todd wants to set up a knight order in the towns on the west coast......"

The cardinal laughed, "I've heard about it, but it's also too funny, to set up a knight order on the shores of the Silverring Kingdom?

"My lord, I don't know if you've heard that the barbarians and pirates of the north have signed a peace agreement. ”

Yarborough's smile stopped abruptly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he was silent.

Tristan pulled a paperwork out of his sleeve and said calmly, "By the way, I still have a report I just got about a recent evangelistic meeting in Twilighttown......"