The early legislation focused primarily on questions of temporal and spiritual supremacy.
His position made him the Bishop's primary rival for spiritual supremacy in Lusitania.
He acknowledged the spiritual supremacy of the Pope and received a royal crown from a papal legate.
Perhaps this was indeed the symbolic declaration of the spiritual supremacy of man.
He'll have the spiritual supremacy, but you'll run Earth.
Even around 1300 hardly anyone questioned either the spiritual supremacy of the Pope, or the validity of his legislative acts and appointments.
To regain it, he challenged Koresh to a contest to raise the dead, going so far as to exhume a corpse to demonstrate his spiritual supremacy.
Both were struggling for the so-called Dominium mundi, or world dominium, in terms of political and spiritual supremacy.
They were compelled to acknowledge the spiritual supremacy of their Oriental brethren in faith.
