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Last pope and his troubled role in the Church (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apostleship

'role in the church' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'last pope and his troubled' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'troubled' indicates anagramming the letters.
'last'+'pope'='lastpope'
'lastpope' put after 'his' is 'hislastpope'.
'hislastpope' anagrammed gives 'APOSTLESHIP'.

(Another definition for apostleship that I've seen is " role in the church".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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