The Council of Constance was convened on 30 October 1413.

When Frederick IV of Habsburg sided with Antipope John XXIII at the Council of Constance, Emperor Sigismund placed him under the Imperial ban.

Paolo Sarpi, as spokesman for the Republic of Venice, protested against the papal interdict, and reasserted the principles of the Council of Constance and of the Council of Basel, denying the pope's authority in secular matters.

After Pope Pius II, in his bull Execrabilis ( 1460 ) and his reply to the University of Cologne ( 1463 ), set aside the theory of the supremacy of general councils laid down by the Council of Constance

The Council of Constance is the 16th ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418.

Bishops debating with the pope at the Council of Constance

The Church declared the first sessions of the Council of Constance an invalid and illicit assembly of Bishops, gathered under the authority of John XXIII.

With the support of King Sigismund, enthroned before the high altar of the cathedral of Constance, the Council of Constance recommended that all three popes abdicate, and that another be chosen.

Gregory XII then sent representatives to Constance, whom he granted full powers to summon, open and preside over an Ecumenical Council ; he also empowered them to present his resignation to the Papacy.

Painting of Jan Hus in Council of Constance by Václav Brožík

It was concluded that the disputes would be mediated by the Council of Constance.

The Reforms of the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ).

* Tanner, Norman P., editor, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: Council of Constance 1414 – 18, excerpts of the sessions ( in English )

* Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Constance

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** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.

( The Council of Constance was called by the German King and later Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund and only obtained papal confirmation later.

The conflict between several papal claimants ( two anti-popes and the legitimate Pope ) was only resolved at the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 18 ); after 1419, much energy was spent on fighting the Hussites.

After the Council of Constance lured Jan Hus in with a letter of indemnity, then tried him for heresy and put him to death at the stake on 6 July 1415, the Hussites fought the Hussite Wars ( 1420 – 1434 ) for their religious and political cause.

When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.

Pope Martin V, who while still Cardinal Otto of Colonna, had attacked Huss with relentless severity, energetically resumed the battle against Huss's teaching after the enactments of the Council of Constance, seeking to eradicate completely the doctrine of Huss, for which purpose the co-operation of King Wenceslaus had to be obtained ; in 1418, Sigismund succeeded in winning his brother over to the standpoint of the council by pointing out the inevitability of a religious war if the heretics in Bohemia found further protection.

* 1414 – Council of Constance.

This schism was not fully resolved until the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ) was called by a group of cardinals.

The Roman Catholic Church officially concluded this debate at the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1417 ).

The bishops and secular leaders, tired of the Great Schism, supported Sigismund when he called the Council of Constance in 1414.

In 1414 Oswald became a member of the entourage of Friedrich IV, Duke of Austria and Count of Tyrol at the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ); a portrait of Oswald can be found in the council's chronicle ( by Ulrich von Richental ).

In 1414 – 1418 the Council of Constance took place, during which, on 6 July 1415, John Hus ( Czech religious thinker, philosopher and reformer ), who was seen as a threat to Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church, was burned at the stake.

At the Council of Constance, in November 1414, Hallam was the chief English envoy.

But the Catholic Church would respond to these problems by a vigorous campaign of reform, inspired by earlier Catholic reform movements that predated the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1417 ): humanism, devotionalism, legalism and the observantine tradition.

1370 – 1435 ) was a Polish scholar and rector who at the Council of Constance in 1414, presented a thesis, Tractatus de potestate papae et imperatoris respectu infidelium ( Treatise on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor Respecting Infidels ).

Paweł Włodkowic represented Poland at the 1414 Council of Constance, where he delivered a thesis about the power of the Pope and the Emperor, the Tractatus de potestate papae et imperatoris respectu infidelium ( Treatise on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor Respecting Infidels ).

In 1414 Hus was summoned to the Council of Constance to defend his views.

Emperor Sigismund ( 1368 – 1437 ) thanked the city of Konstanz in writing for providing some 1, 500 prostitutes for the Council of Constance which took place from 1414 to 1418.

Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ).

The schism inspired the summoning of the Council of Pisa ( 1409 ), which failed to end the schism, and the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ), which succeeded and proclaimed its own superiority over the Pope.

The Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ) successfully ended the Schism by deposing two Popes ( John XXIII and Benedict XIII )-the third Pope abdicated-and electing a successor in Martin V. The Council also decreed to maintain the council as the primary church body from then on, though Martin did not ratify this decision.

D ' Ailly, although slow at first the embrace the conciliar solution to the Schism, participated in both the Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) and the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ).

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** 26 April 1803 – 1815 a ' Small Council ' ( president rotating monthly )

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The Council recognized expert help was required to help shape what the town centre should look like over the next 10 – 15 years and how to make this happen.

On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

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