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VIENNE, COUNCIL OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIENNE, See also:COUNCIL OF , an ecclesiastical council, which in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church ranks as the fifteenth ecumenical See also:synod. It met from See also:October 16, 1311, to May 6, 1312, under the See also:presidency of See also:Pope See also:Clement V. The transference of the See also:Curia from See also:Rome to See also:Avignon (1309) had brought the papacy under the See also:influence of the See also:French See also:crown; and this position See also:Philip the See also:Fair of See also:France now endeavoured to utilize by demanding from the pope the See also:dissolution of the powerful and wealthy See also:order of the See also:Temple, together with the introduction of a trial for See also:heresy against the See also:late Pope See also:Boniface VIII. To evade the second claim, Clement gave way on the first. Legal trials and acts of violence against the See also:Templars had begun as See also:early as the See also:year 1307 (see TEM'PLARS); and the See also:principal See also:object of the council was to secure a definite decision on the question of their continuance or abolition. In the See also:committee appointed for preliminary consultation, one See also:section was for the immediate condemnation of the order, and declined to allow it any opportunity of See also:defence, on the ground that it was now superfluous and simply a source of strife. The See also:majority of the members, however, regarded the See also:case as non-proven, and demanded that the order should be heard on its own behalf; while at the same See also:time they held that its dissolution was unjustifiable. Under pressure from the See also:king, who was himself See also:present in Vienne, the pope determined that, as the order gave occasion for See also:scandal but could not be condemned as heretical bya judicial See also:sentence (de jure), it should be abolished per modum provisions seu ordinationis aposlolicae; in other words, by an administrative ruling based on considerations of the See also:general welfare. To this See also:procedure the council agreed, and on the 22nd of See also:March the order of the Temple was suppressed by the See also:bull Vox clamantis; while further decisions as to the treatment of the order and its possessions followed later. In addition to this the discussions announced in the opening speech, regarding See also:measures for the See also:reformation of the Church and the See also:protection of her liberties, took See also:place; and a See also:part of the Constitutions found in the Clementinuin, published in 1317 by See also:John XXII., were probably enacted by the council. Still it is impossible to say with certainty what decrees were actually passed at Vienne. Additional decisions were necessitated by the violent disputes which raged within the Franciscan order as to the observance of the rules of St See also:Francis of See also:Assisi, and by the multitude of subordinate questions arising from this.

Resolutions were also adopted on the See also:

Beguines and their mode of See also:life (see BEGUINES), the See also:control of the hospitals, the institution of instructors in See also:Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldaic at the See also:universities, and on numerous details of ecclesiastical discipline and See also:law. See Mansi, Collectio Conciliorum, vol. See also:xxv. ; See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. vi. pp. 532-54.

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