Pope Urban VI
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Pope Urban VI, born Bartolomeo Prignano, was head of the Catholic Church from 8 April 1378 to his death, in October 1389. He was the last pope elected from outside the College of Cardinals. His pontif
Effigy of Urban VI contained in his funerary monument
Bulla of Urban VI
Posthumous portrait of Urban VI by Onofrio Panvinio
Painting in the house of Catherine of Siena, showing Urban VI receiving the keys of Castel Sant'Angelo.
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 Urban VI
…Cardinals. His pontificate began shortly after the end of the Avignon Papacy. It was marked by immense conflict between rival factions as a part of the Western Schism, with much of Europe, such as France, the Iberian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, and Scotland recognizing Clement VII, based in Avignon, as the true…
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.