The Avignon Papacy, also known as the Babylonian Captivity, was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (then in the Kingdom of Arles, part of the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) rather than in Rome.

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Avignon papacy, Roman Catholic papacy during the period 1309–77, when the popes took up residence at Avignon, France, instead of at Rome, primarily because of the current political conditions. The severest difficulties faced by the medieval church involved the papacy.

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A period of 72 years from 1305-1377 when the Bishop of Rome resided in Avignon in the south of France beginning with the reign of Clement V in 1305 and lasting until Gregory XI in 1377. This is sometimes called the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy.