hierocratic

It was clear that the curia wished to keep the growing hierocratic structure intact.

The Teutonic Knights were one of the by-products of this papal hierocratic and German discourse.

Implicit in Pecham's letter of 1281 which outlined his hierocratic principles was the paternalist view that the church's task was to affirm and support the king to meet his divinely imposed responsibilities to the Christian commonweal, the realm.

His conception of the Investiture Controversy as an epochal clash of opposing ideologies about "right order in the world," (hierocratic vs. monarchic) was certainly formed as a young scholar witnessing the vicious political conflicts that engulfed the universities in the 1930s and 1940s.