Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church (1431–1449)
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Council of Basel–Ferrara–Florence
Council of Florence in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
Date
1431–1449
Previous council
Council of Constance
Next council
Fifth Council of the Lateran
Convoked by
Pope Martin V
President
Cardinal Julian Cesarini
Attendance
very light in first sessions, eventually 117 Latins and 31 Greeks
Topics
Hussites, East–West Schism, Western Schism
Documents and statements
Several Papal bulls, short-lived compromise of reunion with the Eastern Orthodox Church, reunion with delegation from the Armenians
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12th–14th centuries
Lateran I (1123)
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Lateran III (1179)
Lateran IV (1215)
Lyon I (1245)
Lyon II (1274)
Vienne (1311–12)
15th–16th centuries
Constance (1414–18)
Basel–Ferrara–Florence (1431–42)
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Trent (1545–63)
19th–20th centuries
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Pope Martin V convoked the Council of Basel in 1431: it became the Council of Ferrara in 1438 and the Council of Florence in 1439
The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449. It was convoked as the Council of Basel by Pope Martin V shortly before his death in February 1431 and took place in the context of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. At stake was the greater conflict between the conciliar movement and the principle of papal supremacy.
The Council entered a second phase after Emperor Sigismund's death in 1437. Pope Eugene IV translated the Council to Ferrara on 8 January 1438, where it became the Council of Ferrara and succeeded in drawing some of the Byzantine ambassadors who were in attendance at Basel to Italy. Some Council members rejected the papal decree and remained at Basel: this rump Council suspended Eugene, declared him a heretic, and then in November 1439 elected an antipope, Felix V.
After becoming the Council of Florence (having moved to avoid the plague in Ferrara), the Council concluded in 1445 after negotiating unions with the various eastern churches. This bridging of the Great Schism proved fleeting, but was a political coup for the papacy. In 1447, Sigismund's successor Frederick III commanded the city of Basel to expel the Council of Basel; the rump Council reconvened in Lausanne before dissolving itself in 1449.
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