Office of the pope, the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church. The word is derived from the medieval Latin papa (“pope,” or “father”), a term originally applied to bishops in general.
The office of the pope is called the Papacy; his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the "Holy See" (Sancta Sedes in Latin) or "Apostolic See" (the latter on the basis that both St.
In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Avignon Papacy was the period from 1305 to 1378 during which seven popes, all French, resided in Avignon:
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