Council of Constance
Papal crisis summit
The Council of Constance was a gathering of Catholic Church leaders from 1414 to 1418 that ended the Western Schism—a period when rival popes claimed authority simultaneously.
The council deposed or accepted resignations from three competing popes and elected Martin V, reunifying church leadership.
It also condemned Jan Hus as a heretic and had him burned at the stake.
- safe conductAuthorized passage guarantee
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
- simonyBuying church positions
- Holy Roman EmpireMedieval Germanic political entity
burned at the stake · church reform · ecclesiology · papal authority · religious authority · Catholic Church · canon law · diplomacy · church hierarchy · indulgences · transubstantiation · stake · trial · papal · medieval · burning · ecclesiastical · conclave
- Holy Roman EmpireHoly Roman Empire, emperors, electors, prince-electors, Charlemagne
- Late Medievalfeudal lords, Black Death, knighthood, medieval knights, bubonic plague
- church councilscouncils, synods, church councils, convocation, convocations
- Papal SchismsWestern Schism, Great Schism, schism, antipope, antipopes
- Papal StatesVatican, Holy See, papal palace, Vatican City, papal bull
Council of ConstanceWestern Schism
Period of competing popes
Great Schism · schism · antipope · Protestant Reformation · fragmentation
Council of Constancepapal supremacy
Pope's highest ecclesiastical authority
Council of ConstancePeace of Augsburg
1555 German religious treaty
Edict of Nantes · Hussite Wars · Protestant Reformation · religious toleration