Church & State is the third novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's Cerebus comic book series.

Cerebus is appointed Pope of East Iest, where he immediately becomes drunk with power. His first act is to demand all of the citizens give him all of the gold in the kingdom, lest Tarim destroy the world. Sophia and her mother are moved to a house near the Pope's residence, where they are kept under house arrest. To persuade the public to obey his greed driven demand, Cerebus murders a child handed to him to be blessed and later, an elderly man who beggared his family in order to give Cerebus his family's life savings.

Cerebus's reign however provides him with little comfort, leading to him ordering Jaka located and taken to him. As he is now a Pope, Cerebus can divorce Sophia at his leisure to marry Jaka. But Jaka reveals that she is now married and expecting a child; more importantly, she no longer loves Cerebus due to him not returning to her following the events of "High Society".

Sophia meanwhile leaves her guest house prison, when Cerebus ends up falling through a wall and getting stuck. She informs Cerebus that she is leaving him and that she can divorce him if he wishes to, having realized Cerebus does not love her.

Cerebus takes comfort in his house filled with sacks of gold, but soon finds it coveted by a rival Pope; a giant stone golem which attacks Cerebus's home. As Bran commits suicide rather than suffer a horrific death, Cerebus is flung across the continent of Iest.

Dave Sim (Author), Gerhard (Author)