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Council of Pisa
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Council of Pisa

Roman Catholicism [1511]
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  • Leo X
    Leo X
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    …a council to meet at Pisa in order to revive the conciliar movement, which promoted the idea that a general church council had greater authority than the pope and could depose him. Although ā€œPisa IIā€ collapsed when first the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I and then the French king Louis…

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    …a council to meet at Pisa in order to revive the conciliar movement, which promoted the idea that a general church council had greater authority than the pope and could depose him. Although ā€œPisa IIā€ collapsed when first the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I and then the French king Louis…

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