Will the real Pope please stand? There was a time in the 1300’s and 1400’s where up to three men claimed to be the Pope at the same time. Some of them were headquartered in Avignon, France and not in Rome as you might think so it was battle of the popes-and-the-antipopes. Pope Gregory XI was the last universally-accepted of the French Avignon popes when he died on March 27, 1378.
