Avignon papacy

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  • Jan 1, 1305

    Pope Clement V 1305–1314

    moved to Avignon
  • Jan 1, 1309

    Avignon papacy

    it was not so responsive to French pressure as contemporaries assumed or as later critics insisted. During this time the Sacred College of Cardinals began to gain a stronger role in the government of the church;
  • Jan 1, 1309

    Avignon papacy

    Roman Catholic papacy during the period 1309–77, when the popes took up residence at Avignon instead of at Rome, primarily because of the current political conditions.
  • Jan 1, 1316

    Pope John XXII 1316–1334

  • Jan 1, 1504

    Split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches

    The Great Schism of 1054 was the split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches.This crisis led to the separation between the Eastern and Western churches and is referred to as the Great Schism of 1054. The Christian Church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographic lines. The split, the Great Schism of 1054, led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.