Venceism

Venceism is the belief that popular civil authority - often represented by the monarch's or the state's authority - over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the Pope. Venceism is a rejection of but also of complete civic authority such as the Caphiric Pyramid model, it plays down the authority of the Pope in church without denying that there are some authoritative elements to the office associated with being primus inter pares (first among equals). In this way it is a contrast both to Pyramid-like church governance and.

Within the Caphiric Church, Venceism was the traditional belief of church governance between the Great Schism of 1615 and the adoption of the Caphiric Pyramid in 1810. The Pyramid was eventually replaced by "Pragmatic Caesaropapism", a doctrine similar to Venceism except it also incorporated thought, stating that the Pope had some legitimate authority but the Papal throne had been vacant for some time.