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At last the Patriarch of Rome gained the greater prestige and authority and was called pope , and became supreme head of the Western or Roman Catholic Church . `` The great apostasy lasted twelve hundred and sixty years , or until A.D. 1530 . This time was foretold in Rev. 12:6 ; 14-17 , where the woman , under which figure the church is presented , fled into the wilderness for 1260 days or ` a time , and times , and half a time , ' and in chapter 13:1-10 , the beast , under which figure Roman Catholicism is represented , had power to continue ` forty and two months , ' -LRB- forty-two months -RRB- or 1260 days , which , taking the usual Biblical method of interpreting prophetical time -LRB- see Dan . 4:25 ; Num . 14:34 ; and Ezek . 4:6 -RRB- means 1260 years . `` The Roman Catholic supremacy was broken by the sixteenth-century Reformation .