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The term Urbi et Orbi evolved from the consciousness of the ancient Roman Empire. In fact it should be expressed by the Pope as the bishop of Rome (urbs = city; compare; urbi the corresponding dative form: urban) as well as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, as it were, includes the whole world (orbis = earth; orbi the corresponding dative form; compare: Orbit). The formula is found more frequently in the language of the church, as in the inscription at the Lateran Basilica, after which the church is: "omnium urbis et orbis Ecclesiarum mater et caput" - "the head and mother of all churches of the city and of the earth" = the principal and mother of all churches of the world. Pope Damasus I wrote in a letter to the bishops of Illyricum: "Unde iustum est, omnes in Universo Romanorum Orbe Doctores legis, ea, quae legis sunt, sapere, et non fidem doctrinis variis maculare." - "Hence, it is just, that all doctors of the law in the Universe of the World of the Romans, those, who are of the law, are wise, and do not teach the faith with various doctrines." The ritual of the papal blessing Urbi et Orbi developed in the 13th Century during Pope Gregory X, who consulted before his election with Niccolò and Maffeo Polo.
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