Council of Pisa
1409 ecumenical council of the Catholic Church / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the council of Pope Innocent II, see Council of Pisa (1135). For the council that took place in 1511, see Conciliabulum of Pisa.
The Council of Pisa (Latin: Concilium Pisarum;[1] Italian: Concilio di Pisa, also nicknamed the conciliabolo, "secret meeting", as it was considered illegitimate)[2] was a controversial council held in 1409. It attempted to end the Western Schism by deposing Benedict XIII (Avignon) and Gregory XII (Rome) for schism and manifest heresy. The College of Cardinals, composed of members of both the Avignon Obedience and the Roman Obedience, who were recognized by each other and by the Council, then elected a third papal claimant, Alexander V, who lived only a few months. He was succeeded by John XXIII.