Council of Constance

His main concern was to end the Papal Schism, and he succeeded the king of France as protagonist of conciliar reform by forcing (anti) Pope John XXIII to call the Council of Constance (See 1414–17).

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The fact was that the Council of Constance was a great innovator, and that

The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

The third great task of the Council of Constance was the general reformation of the Church.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

Tried at the Council of Constance in 1415, after repeatedly refusing to recant, Hus was burnt at the stake.

A True Martyr Luke Allnutt 2009

The Council of Constance had deposed the schismatic Pope who convened it, and defined the conciliarist thesis that a general council was the supreme body in the Church, which popes must obey.

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The Duke of Bedford, the English governor, had a musical establishment at his Paris residence, while English musicians served at the court of the Dukes of Burgundy; and even the Council of Constance 1414-18 English musicians won admiration when they celebrated the feast of St. Thomas “with angelically sweet singing”.

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In 1417, the Council of Constance elected Pope Martin V, putting an end to decades of schism in which there had been two, and eventually three, rival claimants to the papacy.

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She died in Rome and was canonized in the year 1391 by Pope Boniface IX, and confirmed by the Council of Constance in 1415.

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She died in Rome and was canonized in the year 1391 by Pope Boniface IX, and confirmed by the Council of Constance in 1415.

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However, the Council of Constance, in 1415, having decided that

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007