Gregory XI, originally named Pierre-Roger de Beaufort, was the pope, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, from 1370 to 1378. He was the last French-born pontiff and the last pope of the Avignon papacy (1309β77), a period when the pope ruled from Avignon, France, instead of Rome. Gregory returned the papacy to Rome in January 1377, and he died the following year.
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