What kind of person is the Pope? What kind of status does he enjoy in the West?

The Pope, also called the Roman Pontiff, is the head of the Roman Curia. Pope means "father" (pope) in Latin. The popes consider themselves to be the successors of Peter, one of the 12 apostles of Christ, and the God-appointed supreme leaders of all Christendom. Elected by the cardinals, they are the spiritual leaders of Christianity. From the fifth and sixth centuries onwards, the power of the Pope and the Church rapidly expanded to override secular power, and after the Pippin Dedication in the middle of the eighth century, the Papal States were formed in central Italy. In the 9th century, the pope became the arbiter of Western Christendom. The struggle between the popes and the feudal monarchs continued. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the power of the popes reached its peak: they had the right to depose monarchs; and the Holy See became the supreme arbiter of all religious matters and doctrinal issues in Central and Western Europe. The upper echelons of the Church had great power and lived in great luxury.

From the 14th century onwards, with the formation and growth of the centralized state in Western Europe, the rise of the bourgeoisie, and the Reformation movement, the power of the Pope gradually declined. In the modern period, with the unification of the Italian state, the territory of the Papal States shrunk, the Pope retired to the Vatican near Rome, and the Papal States practically ceased to exist.In the early twentieth century, the Vatican was recognized by Italy as a sovereign state, and sovereignty belonged to the Pope. Satan, the Fallen Angel[1] (or Satan the Fallen Angel) of the Bible, a Fallen Angel (Fallen Angels) who rebelled against God Jehovah and was once a six-winged angel before the throne of God responsible for placing temptations on earth; he later fell and became a devil, and is viewed as the source of evil and darkness as opposed to the forces of light. (Traditional Satanists, on the other hand, see Satan as the greatest god in the universe; Satan is not only God, but also nature and energy; he is everything.)

The original Hebrew word meaning "Adversary" is mentioned in the classics of some religions, and there are many who believe that Lucifer is an alias for Satan, although this idea appears in Paradise Lost, which is wrong, because of the seven demons, Lucifer and Satan have completely different positions. Satan's positions are completely different, and in the War in Heaven, Lucifer had fought against God with the Satanic Alliance***, so it is wrong to say that Lucifer is an alias for Satan. Lucifer was once the highest-ranking angel in Heaven, the Killing Angel, and held the office of Archangel before the Fall.