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The eastern and western churches split
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Pope Clement V moved the papacy and his residence to Avignon, a city just outside French territory on the Rhone River. This allowed Phillip the Fair, King of France, to exert a great deal of influence over the pope
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the papal court was based in Rome and an Italian was elected pope as Pope Urban VI
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The Great Western Schism occurred in in Western Christendom
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After Pope Gregory XI died, an Italian Pope was elected
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The Catholic world now had a single head based in Rome, but it was not easy to revive the old, unquestioning loyalty to him as God's vicar on earth. The religion became Roman Catholic.
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