1. By: Brandon white

2.  For more than a century, the papacy was troubled by its physical separation from Rome and by rival popes claiming authority.

3.  from Rome to avigionon.  In 1309, a French pope, clement V, moved the seat of the papacy from Rome to Avignon.  Rome had been a symbol for Christians.  two new palaces were built for the popes, who remained in Avignon until 1377.

4.  The great schism.  pope Gregory XI returned the papacy to Rome in1377.  the cardinals declared his election invalid and elected in a French candidate.  starting in1417, a group of church leaders met in Constance, Switzerland, to discuss church unity.

5.  by the fourteenth century, debates within the roman catholic church had increased.

6.  john Wycliffe calls for reforms.  before the great schism, the most serious internal conflict among Christians had been the spilt between  at the same time that the Great Schism was dividing Roman catholic John Wycliffe, an English teacher and priest.

7.  Challenges to the church  Wycliffe’s ideas also influenced the Czech  religions reformer Jan Hus.  Hus objected particularly to the Church sale of indulgences.   ul