Before leaving political power, Carloman helped foster Boniface’s reform project and …show more content…
He sent a commission to Rome in 746, seeking guidance on topics ranging from clerical discipline to the ecclesiastical hierarchy. His court administration also changed drastically with clerics beginning to take a leading role. Episcopal cooperation also became a genuine asset for the assertion of royal power with Bishops serving as guarantors of a religious and social order. It appears at this point that the religious reforms set down by Boniface were working to great effect. By 747, Boniface finally garnered his archbishopric in Mainz and became the primate of Germany as well as the apostolic legate for both Germany and