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      The Catholic Encyclopedia notes the historically obscure resignations of Pontian (230–235) and Marcellinus (296–308), the historically postulated resignation of Liberius (352–366), and that one (unspecified) catalogue of popes lists John XVIII as resigning office in 1009 and ending his life as a monk.


      Read more  >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_resignation

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        Pope Gregory XII , 1415

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