Chakumapeto kwa zaka za zana lachisanu ndi chitatu, apapa anapereka kunena kuti mu mibado yoyamba ya mpingo mabishopu aku Roma anali ndi mphamvu yauzimu yomweyo imene iwo ankaiganizira tsopano. 
About the close of the eighth century, papists put forth the claim that in the first ages of the church the bishops of Rome had possessed the same spiritual power which they now assumed. 