Council of Constance
The Council of Constance was a heated 4-year ecumenical council that had to deal with multiple issues facing Europe at the time, including 3 simultaneous popes, heresy and Church reformation, and the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War. The committee will feature many cardinals and national representatives, as well as the popes themselves and Jan Hus, accused heretic. Different countries and patriarchs were aligned with different popes, adding political dimensions to religious tension. During the conference, Constance became a center of Europe—a center of politics, of the Church, and of the vigorous trade and exciting activity that came with such a large and important meeting. The decisions made by the delegates at this council, all of whom had many alliances and motivations (this is a time, after all, when religious leaders lived opulent lifestyles, with all that entails!) were incredibly important and, as the Catholic Encyclopedia puts it, “from an ecclesiastical point of view, the Council of Constance may truly be said to close the medieval and to open the modern period.”
Committee Staff
Chair – Laura Fisher
Vice-Chair – Grace RosenLetter From the Chair
Letter ForthcomingBackground Guide
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