Pope Boniface IX
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Pope Boniface IX was head of the Catholic Church from 2 November 1389 to his death, in October 1404. He was the second Roman pope during the Western Schism. In this time, the Avignon claimants, Clemen
Bust c. 1400
Bulla of Boniface IX
Coin depicting Pope Boniface IX, Bode Museum, Berlin
Western Schism
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The Western Schism, also known as the Great Divide, the Great Occidental Schism, the Schism of 1378, or the Great Western Schism, was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 20 September 1378
Pope Boniface IX
…born Pietro Tomacelli Cybo) was head of the Catholic Church from 2 November 1389 to his death, in October 1404. He was the second Roman pope during the Western Schism. In this time, the Avignon claimants, Clement VII and Benedict XIII, maintained the Roman Curia in Avignon, under the protection of the French monarchy…
A 14th-century miniature symbolizing the schism
Habemus Papam at the Council of Constance
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica. Alexanders VI, VII, and VIII are numbered as though the Pisan pope Alexander V were legitimate, but John XXIII (d. 1963) reused the ordinal of the Pisan pope John XXIII.