Ultramontanism
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The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church whomaintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used bythose living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; --rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of thoseliving north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf.Gallicanism.
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