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Pope Martin V

Pope Martin V

1369 CE–1431 CE · Genazzano

Born Oddone Colonna of the powerful Roman noble family, Martin V was elected at the Council of Constance in 1417, ending the nearly forty-year Western Schism by uniting Christendom under a single, universally recognized pope. He restored the papacy's seat in Rome, beginning the rebuilding of a city impoverished by decades of division, and worked to reassert papal authority over the Papal States and over the conciliar movement that had elevated him. While accepting periodic councils per the Constance decree, he firmly defended papal primacy. Skilled, pragmatic, and dynastically minded, he re-founded the Renaissance papacy on stable Roman ground.

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