Council of Ferrare

The council of Ferrare 1438 has ecumenical row of 17th council in the Catholic church; started with Basle, it finished with Florence.

Origin

The pope Eugene IV, in front of the drift of the hard core of Basle towards an unrestrained conciliarism more and more in contradiction with the Tradition of the Church, transfers the council from Basle to Ferrare in 1438, and condemns the conciliarists remained in rebellion to Basle (this core will disaggregate in 1449).

One of the reasons of the transfer to Ferrare is a request of the Eastern ones: in 1438, the Church of the East, which seeks support to face the Turkish threat, gives its agreement to take part in an ecumenical council - they had not taken part in the sessions of the council of Basle -, provided it is located on the edges of the Adriatic Sea, so that in the event of Turkish attack the Eastern ones can turn over quickly in their country.

During the 16th session, on January 10th, 1439, the pope proposed to the Greeks to transfer the council to Florence, the plague being declared with Ferrare. The emperor and the patriarch there having agreed, the council was taken again with Florence.

No decree having been published with Ferrare, either on the discipline, or on the faith, or can regard the acts of this council only as the preliminaries of that of Florence. At the bottom, these two councils do only one of them; in the lists, they have both row of 17th oecumenical.

The course of the council was disturbed when the patriarch Marc d' Éphèse disputed the catholic-orthodoxe bringing together.

Tackled subjects

Bond with the Eastern ones: mainly around the question of the Filioque , regarded by the Eastern ones as an illegitimate addition with the Symbol of Nicée-Constantinople .

Dates of the sessions

preliminary Session of opening: January 8th 1438, followed by several congregations February 8th, February 10th… of which the first public meeting the April 9th, in the presence of the Emperor of the East, Jean Paleologist.
1st session: October 8th
2nd session: October 11th, beginning of the question of the Filioque
3rd session: October 14th
4th session: October 15th
5th session: October 16th
6th session: October 20th
7th session: October 25th
8th session: November 1st
9th session: November 4th
10th session: November 8th
11th session: November 11th
12th session: November 15th
13th session: November 27th
14th session: December 4th
15th session: December 8th
16th session: January 10th 1439

Eastern delegation

the emperor, Jean VIII Paleologist, accompanied by 21 métropolites and bishops, of which the Patriarch of Constantinople, and a succession of archimandrites and members of the clergy, to amount of approximately 700.
Marc d' Éphèse
Isidore de Kiow
Bessarion of Nicée
Andre, archbishop of Rhodos

External bonds

Council of Ferrare and Florence

See too

Conciliarisme Oecumenism

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