The emperor saw the protection of the Church as one of his responsibilities as well as wanting to preserve the right to appoint his own choices as bishops within his lands, but the papacy insisted on the Church's independence from secular lords.
رَأى الإمبراطور حِمايَة الكنيسة واحدةً مِن مَسؤولياتِه بِالإضافة إلى الرَّغبة في الحِفاظِ عَلى الحَق في تَعيين خِياراتِه الخاصَّة كأساقفة داخِل أراضيه، لكنَّ البابَوية أصرَّت عَلى استِقلال الكنيسة عَن اللُّوردات العِلمانِيين.