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 ultramontanism 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 protestantism.