Conciliar Movement: Council of Pisa (1409)

Name: Conciliar Movement: Council of Pisa (1409)
Start: 1409

Type Event Region Europe Time 1409

From 25 March to 7 August 1409, conciliarists convened a council at Pisa to end the Western Schism, deposing rival popes Benedict XIII and Gregory XI…

Timeline

1409Pisa Cathedral · PisaConciliarist bishops, supported by secular rulers such as King Charles VI of France, convened a council at Pisa, claiming to resolve the papal schism with the authority of the whole Church; about a hundred participants attended.
1409Pisa · TuscanyThe council declared Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna) and Gregory XII (Angelo Correr) heretics and schismatics and deposed them, embodying the conciliar claim to supreme judgment over papal authority.
1409Pisa · TuscanyThe council elected Cardinal Pietro Filargi of Piedmont as Pope Alexander V, but both deposed popes refused to recognize him, leaving the Church with three rival popes and the conciliar movement entering a new phase.

Sources

Council of Pisa — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Pisa
Western Schism — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Schism