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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Reformation |
 | | The pope's removal to Avignon in the fourteenth century was a grievous error, since the universal character of the papacy was thus obscured in the minds of the Christian people. |
| | After a religious disputation at the University of Upsala the king assigned the victory to Olaf Peterson and proceeded to Lutheranize the university, to confiscate ecclesiastical property, and to employ every means to compel the clergy to accept the new doctrine. |
| | However, the Court, the university, and the Parlement opposed the religious innovations, and the Lutheran community of Meaux was dissolved. |
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