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During who’s papacy did papal power begin to decline?

Pope Leo III
Pope Innocent III
Pope Pius IX
Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Gregory VII

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Pope Boniface VIII.

His clashes with King Philip IV of France (notably over Unam Sanctam and his arrest at Anagni in 1303) weakened papal authority and led soon after to the Avignon Papacy, marking the beginning of a long decline in papal temporal power.