Almost everything about catholic faith revolves around events that (allegedly) happened in the Middle East. Most of the holiest sites seem to be there in relation to the bible’s depiction of events. So wouldn’t it make sense that the pope/vatican would place its power center as near as possible from the holiest sites? How did it come to be Rome? Was this a decision based on the current political climate at the time or was there a reason based on faith/rethoric of the church?
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The Roman Catholic Church was the state religion of the Roman Empire, therefore it’s HQ was in the capital.
The empire did have control of the holy land.
Then it lost it.
Then it tried to get it back.
And it failed. Spectacularly.
But at least the Italians got some sweet trade deals.
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