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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes the abdicator was Celestine V
1295 I think - not a success, he had appointed a series of French Cardinals before anyone could stop him. This precipitated the [Great] Schism when the popes set up shop at Avignon.....Then there were two popes one at Rome and one at Avignon. England for rather obvious reasons followed Rome.
in 1415 - there were briefly three! - each one calling the other two AntiChrists.
going down to one meant a few had to be deposed. - so that is another way of leaving. Sort of abdicating by force.
So yup, there are a few ways you can leave the papacy without going out in a long wooden box.