Council of Constance — Council of Constance † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Constance A (partly) ecumenical council held at Constance, now in the Grand Duchy of Baden, from 5 Nov., 1414, to 22 April, 1418. Its forty five general sessions were devoted… … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Constance — Date 1414–8 Accepted by Catholicism Previous council Vienne Next council Siena (Counciliarism) Florence (Ecumenical) … Wikipedia
Council of Constance — noun the council in 1414 1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church • Syn: ↑Constance • Hypernyms: ↑council … Useful english dictionary
Council of Basle — Council of Basle † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Basle Convoked by Pope Martin V in 1431, closed at Lausanne in 1449. The position of the pope as the common Father of the Christian world had been seriously compromised by the… … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Florence — Council of Basel–Ferrara–Florence Date 1431–45 Accepted by Catholicism Previous council Council of Constance Next council Fifth Council of the Lateran … Wikipedia
Council of Florence — The Council of Florence † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Council of Florence The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was, correctly speaking, the continuation of the Council of Ferrara, transferred to the Tuscan capital because of the pest;… … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Vienne — Date 1311 1312 Accepted by Roman Catholicism Previous council Second Council of Lyons Next council Council of Constance Convoked by Pope … Wikipedia
Constance — • Formerly the seat of a diocese Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Constance Constance † … Catholic encyclopedia
Council of Pisa — Council of Pisa † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Council of Pisa Preliminaries. The great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or… … Catholic encyclopedia
Constance (disambiguation) — Constance may refer to: Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Other 4 See also Places Konstanz (in English formerly known as Constance) … Wikipedia
CONSTANCE — (Ger. Konstanz), city in Germany. The first mention of Jews is in a royal tax list of 1241; the tax paid indicates that they had settled there some decades earlier. A responsum on divorce, written in Constance and published in R. meir b. baruch… … Encyclopedia of Judaism