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Gregory XII

noun

  1. Angelo Correr, Corrario, or Corraro, c1327–1417, Italian ecclesiastic: installed as pope in 1406 and resigned office in 1415.


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He became the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.

Gregory XII had given a conditional promise of resignation, and had so few supporters as to be of slight importance.

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