Pope+Essay

Pope Gregory XII was born in the year 1326 in Venice, Italy and was known as Angelo Coriaro. He was born into a kind and noble family. Before Gregory became pope he was a successful bishop of Castello, a Latin patriarch of Constantinople, cardinal-priest of San Marco, and papal secretary. Gregory XII reigned as pope from 1406 to 1415 and succeeded Pope Innocent VII on November 30, 1406. He was chosen as pope at Rome by a secret meeting consisting of only fifteen cardinals. This was under the condition that Antipope Benedict XIII renounces the claim to the papacy so that a new election might be made and the Western Schism could finally end. The cardinals of Gregory XII showed their dissatisfaction of his work as the pope. They also showed their intention of wanting to abandon him. On May 4, 1408, Pope Gregory XII confronted his cardinals and demanded them to leave the city. After he had the cardinals leave the city, he made four of his nephew’s cardinals. One of these new cardinals included the future pope, Pope Eugene IV. Seven of the old cardinals left Lucca, where the pope and cardinals were located, and began to negotiate with the cardinals of Benedict XIII. The negotiation concerned the convocation of the general council by them, at which both bishops be deposed and a new one elected. The cardinals summoned the council to Pisa and invited the two popes. Neither Gregory XII nor Benedict XIII attended this event. Meanwhile, Gregory XII stayed with his protector, Carlo I Malatesta. At the fifteenth session, on June 5, 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two popes; they elected Alexander V later that month. Gregory XII, who made ten more cardinals, had convoked a rival council which was a council against Alexander V and Benedict XIII. However, only a few bishops appeared. The cardinal’s under Pope Gregory XII believed that these two popes were schismatic, perjurers, and devastators of the church, but this announcement was ignored.

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