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How did King Phillip cause the Great Schism?

by selecting a French pope
by disagreeing with the pope
by moving the pope to France
by having more influence than the pope

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by selecting a French pope

Philip IV pressured the cardinals to choose a French pope (Clement V), which led to the papacy's move to Avignon and increased French control over the papacy — a chain of events that set the stage for the later Great (Western) Schism.