Henry the 8th of England asked the Pope to divorce him and his wife and when he refused Henry created a protestant religion where divorce was allowed.
Papacy is the correct answer.
No, the pope is the head of the papacy, the papacy is the government of the Roman Catholic Church.
Come and take it
266 popes have 'performed' the papacy.
Avignon Papacy was created in 1305.
Avignon Papacy ended in 1378.
His papacy began on October 31, 1503.
It is sometimes referred to as the "Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy" or the "Avignon Papacy." During this period the papacy was headquartered in Avignon, France.
Innocent III.
The Papal Bull of 1517, challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, by dismissing its highest theological authority the Catholic Council of Bishops. Conciliarism was defeated by the papacy and a new Council was appointed by the papacy to serve the papacy, rather than the Catholic Church. Dr. Martin Luther, a Catholic theology professor at Wittenberg Seminary, posted the 95 Theses in opposition to the papal overthrow of the Catholic Council of Bishops and other heresies committed by the papacy. Dr. Martin Luther was excommunicated in 1521; alongside the Dean of Theology at Wittenberg Seminary, Dr. Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt who held three Doctorates.
From 1305 until 1378 the papacy ruled from Avignon, France.
You can give it up for adoption, but who will come forward to take it.