in the middle of the service umur beg swept Scouring down on the congregation and the leaders of the crusade were killed Killing , including the patriarch , martino zaccaria , commander of the papal galleys and the venetian commander , pietro zeno .

Complexities of enfeoffment and dynastic `` appanage '' magnified Expansion a localized feud into one including supporters from the Electorate of the Palatinate and Dutch , Scots and English mercenaries on the Protestant side , and Bavarian and papal mercenaries on the Catholic side .

On 22 February 1996 , Pope John Paul II introduced Statement revisions to the centuries-old ceremonies surrounding papal death , repose and burial .

at the funeral itself , ecumenical patriarch bartholomew i of the eastern orthodox church was in the honorary first seat in the sector reserved Preserving for delegations from churches not in full communion with the see of rome ; this was the first time an ecumenical patriarch attended Participation a papal funeral since the unk schism .

The Archbishop of Canterbury ( then Rowan Williams ) , was also present at the papal funeral , the first time since the Church of England broke Destroying with the Catholic Church in the 16th century .

Also for the first time ever , the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church , Patriarch Abune Paulos , attended Participation a papal funeral .

The rebellion was in equal part a protest by feudal lords against the intrusion of central government into their domains ; a conservative Irish reaction Response to English policies that were altering Change traditional Gaelic society ; and a religious conflict Hostile_encounter , in which the rebels claimed Statement that they were upholding Catholicism against a Protestant queen who had been pronounced Statement a heretic in 1570 by the papal bull `` Regnans in Excelsis '' .