Effigy of Urban VI contained in his funerary monument
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
8 April 1378
Papacy ended
15 October 1389
Predecessor
Gregory XI
Successor
Boniface IX
Opposed to
Avignon claimant: Clement VII
Orders
Consecration
21 March 1364
Personal details
Born
Bartolomeo Prignano
c. 1318
Itri, Kingdom of Naples
Died
15 October 1389(1389-10-15) (aged 70–71) Rome, Papal States
Coat of arms
Other popes named Urban
Papal styles of Pope Urban VI
Reference style
His Holiness
Spoken style
Your Holiness
Religious style
Holy Father
Posthumous style
None
Pope Urban VI (Latin: Urbanus VI; Italian: Urbano VI; c. 1318 – 15 October 1389), born Bartolomeo Prignano (Italian pronunciation:[bartoloˈmɛːopriɲˈɲaːno]), was head of the Catholic Church from 8 April 1378 to his death, in October 1389. He was the most recent pope to be elected from outside the College of Cardinals. His pontificate began shortly after the end of the Avignon Papacy. It was marked by immense conflict between rival factions as part of the Western Schism, with much of Europe recognizing Clement VII, based in Avignon, as the true pope.
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electors. Since then, other details of the process have developed. In 1970, Pope Paul VI limited the electors to cardinals under 80 years of age in Ingravescentem...
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