How to use in-sentence of “papacy”:
– On 11 February 2013, the Vatican confirmed Pope Benedict would resign the papacy and on 13 March it announced the new and current pope as Pope Francis.
– The Avignon Papacy was from 1309 to 1377.
– In 1939 he was appointed a Papal Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape, one of the highest honors the Papacy bestowed on a layman, which today is styled a Gentlemen of His Holiness.
– Henry VIII considered himself a thoroughly Catholic King, and in 1521 he defended the papacy against Luther in a book he commissioned entitled, “Defence of the Seven SacramentsThe Defense of the Seven Sacraments”, for which Pope Leo X awarded him the title “Fidei Defensor”.
– He renewed the Vatican donation and the promise to the papacy of continued Frankish protection.
– Pope Clement moved the papacy to Avignon.
– His papacy lasted for forty years, four months, and four days from 14 November 1971 until his death on 17 March 2012.
