Usually means: Tenures of successive Catholic Popes.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (papacy)

noun:  The office of a pope.
noun:  (usually) The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
noun:  The period of a particular pope's reign.
noun:  (often derogatory) Roman Catholicism generally: synonym of popery.
▸ Also see papacy


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