Constantine's Donation to the ‘Bishop and Pope of the City of Rome’
Mark Edwards
The salutation urbis Romae episcopo et pape in the forged Donation of Constantine is generally supposed to mean 'to bishop city Rome and Pope', not pope Rome', on grounds that a Western writer eighth century would have added any qualifier term 'Pope'. This claim disproved by chapter 14 Donation, while other documents from reserve locution papa for distinguished pontiffs, especially when engaged some extension their prerogative. closest parallel occurs [Nennius], Historia Brittonum 50 , with change syntactic order entails translation 'bishop Rome'.
The Journal of Theological Studies