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Chapter 9 - Council of Constance  
     
  Council of Constance 1414 to 1418 CE  
 Summary
Date
Nov 5, 1414 to Apr. 22, 1418
Called by
Schismatic Pope John XXIII, confirmed by Pope Gregory XII
Presided by
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Attendance
600
Key topics
Western Schism
Documents & Statements
Schismatic Pope John XXIII deposed, resignation of Pope Gregory XII accepted, Avignon Pope Benedict XIII deposed, condemnation of Jan Hus, election of Pope Martin V.
 
Background  
   
   
   
Throughout the Middle Ages, even Western or Roman Catholics themselves debated the convoking and authority of councils. Although all the bishops and theologians agreed that the pope should have special prerogatives, for several centuries reformers claimed that when protesters had grievances, they could appeal from the pope to a council. Out of these reformist parties came a theory of Conciliarism, the idea that a council is ultimately above the pope. The Great Schism in 1378 brought this debate to a head, since there were then two and later three popes. The Council of Constance (1414-18) settled the division.
 
   
   
   
Key Innovations for elimination of heresy and heretics  
Retrospective approval of the church/state organized ethnic cleansing of all jews and descendents of former Jewish state of Sept-mania from Barcelona and Spain including removing acknowledgment of it ever existing from any and all official records.  
Hundreds of thousand of Jews, many with blood relation to the Apostles, the Nazarenes and the family of Jesus "eliminated" by the church. First example of the methods of claiming "forced relocation" as a way of publicly hiding concentration camps for the extermination of jewish population. Similar propaganda methods to hide extreme evil and techniques adopted in the 1930's by the Nazis.  
To this day, church of Rome still holds the position of plausible deniability of the former existence of the Jewish state of Sept-mania and of its successful mass annihilation of heretical bloodlines.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 
 
 

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