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Define papacy. what role did the popes play in the Renaissance, in the reformation?

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Papacy is the office or authority of the pope. The Renaissance Popes were determined to restore Rome and to make her once again the capital of a united Christendom. The Pope's placed the papacy itself at the head of a movement for churchwide reform.
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