The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church: Its Division and Beliefs
Global Studies The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church:
Its division and beliefs
The Church is the congregation and unity of God‘s people together in one whole body,
known as the Mystical body of Christ, because of the way devout followers of Christ,
come to experience Christ through the Sacraments, Clergy, and Litany. The Catechism of
the Church states that the Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, is the perpetual
and visible source of the foundation of the unity of the bishops and all the faithful in one
whole company or unity.
Pope Clement V, when elected as Pope. He had decided rather than moving to Rome,
Clement V lived in Avignon, a small town in France, and after his death many other
Popes to come still continued to live and continue their papacy there in Avignon, in
France, instead of the original home of all Peter’s descendants, in Rome. By the time
when Poe Gregory XI came into position as the Pope. Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy
from France back to Rome in 1377. Later on that year, Pope Gregory’s death, cause the
cardinals to create a conclave to elect a new Pope, but as the election ended the cardinals
had elected an Italian cardinal, who would become the new Pope, and he took the name
of Urban VI. Pope Urban VI’s reforms were not welcomed by the other cardinals, they
claimed that they had been forced by the Roman mob to vote for the Italian Pope, and that
Urban VI, therefore wasn’t the true Pope. The cardinals held another conclave just
months after Urban VI’s election, and as a result the new Pope was the nephew of the
French king, and this man took the name of Clement VII, but Clement VII wasn’t the true
Pope, but an antipope, because Urban VI, still held his position as Pope. Clement VII,
unable to take control of the papacy in Rome, Clement VII was recognized as Pope by the
King of France, So Clement VII returned to Avignon in France, and
Its division and beliefs
The Church is the congregation and unity of God‘s people together in one whole body,
known as the Mystical body of Christ, because of the way devout followers of Christ,
come to experience Christ through the Sacraments, Clergy, and Litany. The Catechism of
the Church states that the Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, is the perpetual
and visible source of the foundation of the unity of the bishops and all the faithful in one
whole company or unity.
Pope Clement V, when elected as Pope. He had decided rather than moving to Rome,
Clement V lived in Avignon, a small town in France, and after his death many other
Popes to come still continued to live and continue their papacy there in Avignon, in
France, instead of the original home of all Peter’s descendants, in Rome. By the time
when Poe Gregory XI came into position as the Pope. Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy
from France back to Rome in 1377. Later on that year, Pope Gregory’s death, cause the
cardinals to create a conclave to elect a new Pope, but as the election ended the cardinals
had elected an Italian cardinal, who would become the new Pope, and he took the name
of Urban VI. Pope Urban VI’s reforms were not welcomed by the other cardinals, they
claimed that they had been forced by the Roman mob to vote for the Italian Pope, and that
Urban VI, therefore wasn’t the true Pope. The cardinals held another conclave just
months after Urban VI’s election, and as a result the new Pope was the nephew of the
French king, and this man took the name of Clement VII, but Clement VII wasn’t the true
Pope, but an antipope, because Urban VI, still held his position as Pope. Clement VII,
unable to take control of the papacy in Rome, Clement VII was recognized as Pope by the
King of France, So Clement VII returned to Avignon in France, and