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Rome is a city and special " comune " ( named " Roma Capitale ") in Italy . Rome is the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region . With 2 , 870 , 336 residents in , it is also the country ' s largest and most populated " comune " and fourth - most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits . The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of ___MASK100___ . 3 million residents . The city is located in the central - western portion of the Italian Peninsula , within Lazio ( Latium ), along the shores of Tiber river . The Vatican City is an independent country geographically located within the city boundaries of Rome , the only existing example of a country within a city : for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states . A patriarchate is the office or jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical ___MASK68___ . A ___MASK68___ , as the term is used here , is either , The Holy See is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome , the episcopal see of the ___MASK15___ , and an independent ___MASK63___ entity . It serves as the central point of reference for the Catholic Church everywhere and the focal point of communion due to its position as the pre - eminent episcopal see of the universal church . It traces its origin to the 1st century during the apostolic era , when Saint Peter arrived in Rome to evangelise and formed a significant early Christian community of believers there . Today , it is responsible for the governance of all Catholics , organised in their Particular Churches , Patriarchates and religious institutes . The Catholic Church , also known as the Roman Catholic Church , is the largest Christian church , with more than 1 . 27 billion members worldwide . As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world , it has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation . Headed by the ___MASK8___ of Rome , known as the pope , its doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed . The Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments . The Byzantine Papacy was a period of Byzantine domination of the papacy from 537 to 752 , when popes required the approval of the Byzantine ___MASK62___ for episcopal consecration , and many popes were chosen from the " apocrisiarii " ( liaisons from the pope to the ___MASK62___ ) or the inhabitants of Byzantine Greece , Byzantine Syria , or Byzantine Sicily . Justinian I conquered the Italian peninsula in the Gothic War ( 535  554 ) and appointed the next three popes , a practice that would be continued by his successors and later be delegated to the Exarchate of Ravenna . A metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic , political , and cultural center for a country or region , and an important hub for regional or international connections , commerce , and communications . The term is Greek and means the " ___MASK37___ city " of a colony ( in the ancient sense ), that is , the city which sent out settlers . This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity , or any large , important city in a nation . The ___MASK15___ ( from " pappas ", a child ' s word for " father ") is the ___MASK8___ of Rome and , therefore , the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . The primacy of the Roman ___MASK8___ is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter , to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of " binding and loosing ", naming him as the " rock " upon which the church would be built . The current ___MASK15___ is Francis , who was elected on 13 March 2013 , succeeding Benedict XVI . In Catholic ___MASK45___ law , a particular church is an ecclesiastical community headed by a ___MASK8___ or someone recognised as the equivalent of a ___MASK8___ . An episcopal see is , in the usual meaning of the phrase , the area of a ___MASK8___ ' s ecclesiastical jurisdiction . The Chaldean Catholic Church (" dtha kaldetha qthuliqetha "; Arabic :   " al - Kansa al - kaldniyya ") is an Eastern Syriac particular church of the Catholic Church , under the Holy See of the ___MASK76___ - Patriarch of Babylon , maintaining full communion with the ___MASK8___ of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church . The Chaldean Catholic Church presently comprises around 500 , 000 people . Most Chaldo - Assyrians live in northern Iraq , with smaller numbers in adjacent areas in northeastern Syria , southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran , a region roughly corresponding with what was Assyria between the 25th century BC and mid - 7th century AD . There are also Chaldeans in the diaspora , primarily in the American states of Michigan , Illinois and California . A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity , identified by traits such as a name , organisation , leadership and doctrine . Individual bodies , however , may use alternative terms to describe themselves , such as church or sometimes ___MASK82___ . Divisions between one group and another are defined by authority and doctrine ; issues such as the nature of Jesus , the authority of apostolic succession , eschatology , and papal primacy may separate one denomination from another . Groups of denominations  often sharing broadly similar beliefs , practices , and historical ties  are sometimes known as " branches of Christianity " or " denominational families ". The word diocese is derived from the Greek term "" meaning " administration ". When now used in an ecclesiastical sense , it refers to a territorial unit of administration . In the Western Church , the district is under the supervision of a ___MASK8___ ( who may have assistant bishops to help him or her ) and is divided into parishes under the care of priests ; but in the Eastern Church , the word denotes the area under the jurisdiction of a patriarch and the bishops under his jurisdiction administer parishes . This structure of church governance is known as episcopal polity . Frankfurt am Main is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth - largest city in Germany , with a 2015 population of 731 , 095 within its administrative boundaries , and 2 . ___MASK28___ million in its urban area . The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine - Main Metropolitan Region , which has a population of 5 . 8 million and is Germany ' s second - largest metropolitan region after Rhine - Ruhr . Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013 , the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt ' s CBD , the Bankenviertel . Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse , with around half of the population , and a majority of young people , having a migration background . A quarter of the population are foreign nationals , including many expatriates . An ___MASK52___ is a senior clergy position in the Syriac Orthodox Church , Church of the East , Chaldean Catholic Church , Anglican Communion , St Thomas Christians , Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations , above that of most clergy and below a ___MASK8___ . In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a ___MASK8___ in the Roman Catholic Church . An ___MASK52___ is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry , which is the principal subdivision of the diocese . The " Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church " has defined an ___MASK52___ as " A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the ___MASK8___ in the whole or part of the diocese ." The office has often been described metaphorically as that of " oculus episcopi ", the " ___MASK8___ ' s eye ". Theophylact was an ___MASK52___ of the Roman Church . After the death of ___MASK15___ Stephen II in 757 , a faction wanted to place him on the Holy See , but the majority chose the deceased ___MASK15___ ' s brother Paul as successor . Theophylact remained in the papal service , in 794 serving as one of Adrian I ' s legates to the Synod of Frankfurt . The Syriac Orthodox Church , also known as the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch , is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean , with a diaspora spread throughout the world , notably in Sweden , India , Germany and the United Kingdom . It employs some of the oldest surviving liturgy in Christianity , the Liturgy of St James the ___MASK20___ , with West Syriac as its official and liturgical language . The church has been led by the Syriac Orthodox ___MASK17___ Ignatius Aphrem II since 2014 . Hesse or Hessia (, Hessian dialect : " Hesse " ) is a federal state (" Land ") of the Federal Republic of Germany , with just over six million inhabitants . The state capital is Wiesbaden ; the largest city is Frankfurt am Main . Until the formation of the German Reich in 1871 , Hesse was an independent country ruled by a Grand ___MASK96___ ( Grand Duchy of Hesse ). Due to divisions after World War II , the modern federal state does not cover the entire cultural region of Hesse which includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse ( Rheinhessen ) in the neighbouring state of Rhineland - Palatinate . ___MASK15___ Stephen II (( or III ); 71526 April 757 ) was ___MASK15___ from 26 March 752 to his death in 757 . He succeeded ___MASK15___ Zachary following the death of ___MASK15___ - elect Stephen ( sometimes called Stephen II ). Stephen II marks the historical delineation between the Byzantine Papacy and the Frankish Papacy . ___MASK15___ - elect Stephen was a Roman priest elected ___MASK15___ in March 752 to succeed Zachary ; he died of a stroke a few days later , before being consecrated a ___MASK8___ . Therefore , he is not listed as a ___MASK15___ in the " Annuario Pontificio ". ___MASK15___ Zachary ( 679  15 March 752 ) reigned from ___MASK28___ December or 5 December 741 to his death in 752 . A Greek from Santa Severina , Calabria , he was the last pope of the Byzantine Papacy . Most probably he was a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman council of 732 and was on intimate terms with Gregory III , whom he succeeded on 5 December 741 .