Editing Church of Sanctaria (section)

====Growth and organisation====
Throughout the remainder of the 11th century, and the beginning of the 12th, successive patriarchs focused on growing the organisation of the Sanctarian Catholic Church itself, including adopting the name of ''Ecclesia Terra Sancti'', meaning the Church of the Holy Land. This part of Sanctarian history also saw the area's name, Terra Sanctus, quickly corrupt into Sancti Terra, and finally Sanctaria, due to the influx of trade from other nations, and the adoption of Latin and English as commonly spoken languages. By the reign of Gregory IV in the 1160s, the nation was almost exclusively called, and referred to, as Sanctaria.

Gregory IV's reign also saw the better organisation of Provinces and Dioceses within Sanctaria; prior to Gregory IV's reign, the patriarch appointed any cleric who pleased him a bishop, regardless of whether or not that person actually had a diocese or see to run. In 1158, Gregory IV issued what scholars believe to be equivalent to a constitution, in English called ''The State of the Church'', in which he spelled out the organisation as first and foremost parishes, led by a priest, then dioceses led by a bishop, then provinces led by an archbishop. He did, however, include the title and position of cardinal, something borrowed from the Roman Church, as a personal gift of the patriarch, which would continue to be given to a cleric who was favoured by the patriarch. An addendum to ''The State of the Church'' was issued in 1168, saying only those bishops who held the title of cardinal were eligible to be chosen as a successor to the patriarch. The 1168 amendment also clarified that it would be the bishops sitting as a group who would choose a cardinal to be Archbishop of Sanctus whenever that see was vacant; previously the patriarch chose a successor on his deathbed, if he was physically able to. This tradition of bishops choosing a cardinal from among their number to be patriarch continued until 2003 when [[Patriarch Simon XVI|Simon XVI]] was the first non-Cardinal to be chosen, the position and title discontinued from 1974.<ref>Cardinals appointed prior to 1974 and who were still alive were grandfathered in.</ref>

By the late 1200s, most of the land now considered modern Sanctaria were fully Christian, though not all had ceded temporal authority to the patriarch. The Church's own ranks of priests and bishops had ballooned and, according to the Church's own records, the vast majority of people in Sanctaria were literate in at least one of English or Latin, a fact which scholars suggest was likely exaggerated, but otherwise very notable in its own right.