Editing Church of Sanctaria (section)

====Militancy and cementing of temporal rule====
[[File:Gregory VI.jpg|left|thumb|190x190px|Drawing of Patriarch Gregory VI (1380—1386) who declared the Papal Kingdom of Sanctaria]]
Between 1369 and 1386, the Archbishopric of Sanctus was held by successive patriarchs who academics commonly refer to as "The Warrior Patriarchs". These individuals, Adrian II, Adrian III, and Gregory VI, are known more for their militancy and thirst for warfare and conquest than they are for any spiritual or religious dogma or acts. Beginning with Adrian II, who was elected Patriarch in 1369, these patriarchs unified any vestiges of tribal military that still existed even centuries after the unification of tribes and tribal life, such as separate armies or militia for certain parts of Sanctaria. Called the Blessed Army of the Patriarch, this unified force was dispatched by the successive patriarch to lands who, while followers of the Church of Sanctaria, had not ceded sovereignty to the patriarch. Adrian III in particular, who reigned from 1377 to 1380, often personally led this army into battle against local tribal chieftains and kings, who were often matchless against the numbers the Blessed Army possessed. In October 1380, Adrian III was wounded at the Battle of the Mountain Pass by a stray arrow from, contemporary records say, one of his own soldiers. The Battle of the Mountain Pass was the final battle in the Papal Wars, and ended with the local tribal king pledging loyalty, subservience, and fealty to the dying Adrian III. Adrian III was said to be less than gracious in victory and apparently with his dying breath ordered the surrendered king beheaded, an order which his captains dutifully carried out.

In December 1380, Gregory VI was chosen as the new patriarch, and immediately declared in his inaugural homily that "Sanctaria must move forward as one. No more tribes. No more kings - save one. The Holy King. God's own King. The Papal King". On Christmas Day 1380, Gregory declared that all tribes and tribal customs and laws were to be disbanded, and that all individuals were now part of one Sanctaria that was united fully, in all aspects, under the rule of the Church of Sanctaria. He declared himself Sovereign of the Kingdom of Sanctaria, in addition to his title of Patriarch of the Church of Sanctaria, and decreed that whomever held the latter would also be the former. 

Though there were some rebellions in the last few days of 1380 and the early part of 1381, Gregory ensured the Blessed Army was on hand to crush any dissent saying in a letter to a friend "they profess to be Catholic, but they reject the authority of God. God has chosen me and has chosen this path. God alone shall judge them for their heresy, and it is my duty to ensure they meet God in judgement expeditiously". Scholars now date the Papal Kingdom of Sanctaria, as it came to be known, to Christmas Day 1380, and the declaration by Gregory VI that he was a Sovereign over one, united, catholic Sanctaria.