Pope Urban VI
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1389 (1318-1389) · Italy · Religious Figures · Died at 71
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Something wrong?The last pope elected from outside the College of Cardinals, and the man whose election triggered the Western Schism - a forty-year fracture that left Christendom with two rival popes, two obediences, and no clear way out.
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Bartolomeo Prignano was born around 1318 and rose through the Church without the cardinal's hat that had become the standard credential for the papacy. Elected on 8 April 1378 as Urban VI, his pontificate came just as the papacy returned from its long Avignon exile. Almost immediately, conflict erupted: a rival faction elected Clement VII, who set up in Avignon, and Europe split down the middle. France, Castile, Aragon, and Scotland recognized Clement; much of the rest held to Urban. The Western Schism had begun, and it would outlast both men. Urban VI died in October 1389, twelve years into a fracture he couldn't heal.
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