Gregory XI

· 1371 – 1378 · 7 yrs · died

Brought the papacy back to Rome in 1377, partly because Catherine of Siena kept telling him to.

Did

Ended the Avignon papacy.

Didn't

Live to see what came next: his death in 1378 triggered the Western Schism.

From the record

Pope Gregory XI was head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1370 to his death, in March 1378. He was the seventh and last Avignon pope and the most recent French pope. In 1377, Gregory XI returned the papal court to Rome, ending nearly 70 years of papal residency in Avignon, in modern-day France. His death was swiftly followed by the Western Schism involving two Avignon-based antipopes.

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