Papal resignation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

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00:01:36 1 Procedure
00:03:45 2 History
00:04:22 2.1 The chaotic era of the papacy
00:07:16 2.2 Celestine V
00:07:58 2.3 The Great Schism
00:08:35 2.4 Benedict XVI
00:09:39 3 List of papal renunciations
00:09:49 4 Conditional renunciations not put into effect
00:12:42 5 Incapacitation
00:13:50 6 See also



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A papal renunciation (Latin: renuntiatio) occurs when the reigning pope of the Catholic Church voluntarily steps down from his position. As the reign of the pope has conventionally been from election until death, papal renunciation is an uncommon event. Before the 21st century, only five popes unambiguously resigned with historical certainty, all between the 10th and 15th centuries. Additionally, there are disputed claims of four popes having resigned, dating from the 3rd to the 11th centuries; a fifth disputed case may have involved an antipope.
Additionally, a few popes during the saeculum obscurum were "deposed", meaning driven from office by force. The history and canonical question here is complicated; generally, the official Vatican list of popes seems to recognize such "depositions" as valid renunciations if the pope acquiesced, but not if he did not. The later development of canon law has been in favor of papal supremacy, leaving no recourse to the removal of a pope involuntarily.The most recent pope to resign was Benedict XVI, who vacated the Holy See on 28 February 2013 at 19:00 UTC. He was the first pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415.
Despite its common usage in discussion of papal renunciations, the term abdication is not used in the official documents of the church for renunciation by a pope.