Pope Innocent III for many people is a savior of Christianity. He is considered highly regarded because he was one of the most influential and powerful popes of the Middle Ages. Pope Innocent III left a mark not only among the common citizens of his kingdom, but above all among the Roman Catholics. His election as Pope Innocent III occurred at the age of thirty-seven on 8 January 1198, his real name was Lotario di Segni. Many popes before him had let Christian values ​​slip away, ultimately leaving no hope of salvation due to the corruption that was occurring in the Church and the values ​​that were being forgotten by each new pope. Pope Innocent III was the first pope to appoint himself 'Vicar of Peter' and then to appoint himself 'Vicar of Christ' because he was convinced as pope that he was "the Vicar of Christ on earth, charged with the duty of wielding the spiritual sword, therefore as to support religion, justice and mortality everywhere.” Pope Innocent was doing such good work that it took him only a few years to restore the hope and respect of the Roman people. Pope Innocent's ultimate concern was to recover the faith of Christ, because religious values ​​were diminishing and the hope of salvation was weakening. on his shoulders. His duty as Pope was to remedy the fall of the Church and, in doing so, he did not need to change much, but simply to strengthen religious values. During his reign he accomplished many things, including taking the papacy to new heights, making it more powerful than it had ever been. Pope Innocent III was in many ways an opportunist and used the opportunity on many occasions to enhance his authority and power among the people and the papacy. This would be a very important tactic used at the time of Henry VI's death in 1197, leaving...... middle of paper ......I: Studies in Papal Authority and Pastoral CareJ. C. Moore (ed.), Pope Innocent III and His World (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999) C. Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)F. Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979) J. M. Powell (ed.), Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World?, 2nd edition (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994)J. Sayers, Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198-1216 (New York, NY: Longman, 1993) J.R. Strayer, The Albigensian Crusades, new edition with an epilogue by C. Lansing (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992 )RHC Davis, A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to Saint Louis. London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1957.WL Wakefield, Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in the South of France 1100-