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traditionally dated 1054
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it was founded in France on 1309
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He moved it in 1309 and he moved his court to the papal enclave at Avignon where it stayed for 67 years
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He is remembered for ordering the knights Templar and allowing the exclusion of many of his members and moving the Curia from Rome to Avignon(died 1314)
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the division or conflict in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were rival popes at Avignon and Rome. also called Schism of the West. the separation of the Eastern Church from the Western Church