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The 24 pages that link to Western Schism, each with the reason it gives.

• University of ParisRelated: The university’s theologians and masters took part in debates over ending the division.

• Avignon PapacyRelated: The disputed election after Gregory XI’s return turned tensions surrounding the Avignon papacy into rival obediences.

• Papal supremacyRelated: Competing popes raised a practical crisis for claims of unique supreme authority.

• Jan HusRelated: Competing popes sharpened Hus’s claim that a pope’s authority depended on faithful conduct.

• ConciliarismRelated: Competing popes prompted arguments that a council could restore unity and judge papal claimants.

• PapacyRelated: Competing papal claims weakened confidence in the institution’s unity.

• Catherine of SienaRelated: Catherine’s support for Urban VI came amid this crisis of papal legitimacy.

• Hussite WarsRelated: The divided church formed the wider setting for disputes over reform and authority.

• Pope Martin VRelated: Martin V’s election at Constance ended this long contest among rival papal claimants.

• AvignonRelated: The schism prolonged Avignon’s papal significance after the popes returned to Rome.

• Pope Boniface VIIIRelated: The later crisis deepened questions of papal authority that Boniface’s pontificate had sharpened.

• Crisis of the Late Middle AgesRelated: Competing papal claims deepened a crisis of religious authority amid wider instability.

• History of the Catholic ChurchRelated: Competing popes exposed the difficulty of resolving disputes over supreme Church authority.