Pope Urban V
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370 · France · Religious Figures · Lived 1310 to 1370 · aged 60
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Something wrong?A 14th-century pope who tried to live like a monk while running the Church - and made his cardinals uncomfortable doing it.
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Guillaume de Grimoard was born in 1310 and entered the Order of Saint Benedict. Elected head of the Catholic Church on 28 September 1362, he took the name Urban V but kept his monk's discipline: simple living, no luxury, the Benedictine Rule in full. His ecclesial peers, used to wealth, bristled. He pushed reform through his pontificate, restored churches and monasteries, and set his sights on reuniting the Eastern and Western Churches - coming close but never closing the distance. He died 19 December 1370, the only Avignon pope beatified.
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