Assertion: pope | /r/CapableOf | relinquish the office
Facets:
value: in 1415
type: TEMPORAL
value: since gregory xii
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Benedict XVI's decision to step down as leader of the Catholic Church made him the first pope to relinquish the office since Gregory XII in 1415 (who did so in order to end the Western Schism), the first to do so on his own initiative since Celestine V in 1294.