Question on Avignon Papacy

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When the Pope was in France during the Avignon Papacy, was he still officially the bishop of Rome?
 
He most likely was still the Bishop of Rome, however in Avignon they had to share the episcopate.
 
Yes, he was still bishop of Rome. Absentee bishops was one of the abuses that the Council of Trent addressed.
 
Yes. Later on though, when the Pope decided to go back to Rome for the welfare of the Church, there were certain nobles who disagreed with this move. In response, they set up their own Popes in avignon. We call them today the anti-popes. It was one of the things that lead to the reformation, because of the complete confusion on who was the true Pope. The commoners didn’t know who to follow.
 
Here is an offical list of all the Roman Catholic Popes from St. Peter through today’s Pope Benedict.
The line of succession numbers 266 for the 2000+ years of existance of the Church.

newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm

(Note that those who were opposed by individuals were still the Official Popes of the Roman Catholic Church.)
 
Session seven dealt with a Bishop being Bishop in more than one Cathedral. Maybe there was crossover between the sessions.
 
Theophorus said:
Session seven dealt with a Bishop being Bishop in more than one Cathedral. Maybe there was crossover between the sessions.
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Session VII’s reforms continued with 15 chapters (specific reforms) related to clergy. But, AFAIK, residency was chap 1 in Session VI. It’s the longest reform in the two Sessions.

As always, I may be misreading the reforms. But that’s how I’m seeing it.

GKC
 
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