who calls himself “King” and “Pontifex Maximus,” is Caesar’s successor. 1360. Rome, Papal, Successor to Pagan Rome SOURCE: Walter Woodburn Hyde, Paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire, pp. 6, 7. Copyright 1946 by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Used by permission. [p. 6] As Rome’s role in pagan history came to an end, she was destined to play another, a sacred one, in Christian history very like that of Jerusalem in Judaism… Rome’s part in ecclesiastical history had begun… Thus