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Council of Basel
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Council of Florence
The Seventeenth
Ecumenical Council
of the
Roman Catholic Church
was convoked as the
Council of
Basel
(Basle in the once-preferred English spelling) by
Pope Martin V
shortly before his death in February 1431 and took place in the context of the
Hussite wars
in Bohemia and the
rise of the Ottoman Empire
. At stake was the greater conflict between the
Conciliar movement
and the principle of
papal supremacy
.
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