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When electedpope,Julius II promised underoath that he would soon convoke ageneral council. Time passed, however, and this promise was not fulfilled. Consequently, certain dissatisfiedcardinals, urged, also, by Emperor Maximilian and Louis XII, convoked a council atPisa and fixed 1 September, 1511, for its opening This event was delayed until 1 October. Fourcardinals then met atPisa provided with proxies from three absentcardinals. Severalbishops andabbots were also there, as well as ambassadors from the King ofFrance. Seven or eight sessions were held, in the last of whichPope Julius II was suspended, whereupon theprelates withdrew to Lyons. Thepope hastened to oppose to thisconciliabulum a more numerously attended council, which he convoked, by theBull of 18 July, 1511, to assemble 19 April, 1512, in thechurch of St. John Lateran. TheBull was at once a canonical and a polemical document. In it thepope refuted in detail the reasons alleged by thecardinals for theirPisaconciliabulum. He declared that his conduct before his elevation to the pontificate was a pledge of his sincere desire for the celebration of the council; that since his elevation he had always sought opportunities for assembling it; that for this reason he had sought to reestablish peace amongChristian princes; that thewars which had arisen against his will had no other object than the reestablishment of pontifical authority in theStates of the Church. He then reproached the rebelcardinals with the irregularity of their conduct and the unseemliness of convoking the Universal Church independently of its head. He pointed out to them that the three months accorded by them for the assembly of allbishops atPisa was too short, and that said city presented none of the advantages requisite for an assembly of such importance. Finally, he declared that no one should attach any significance to the act of thecardinals. TheBull was signed by twenty-onecardinals. The French victory ofRavenna (11 April, 1512) hindered the opening of the council before 3 May, on which day the fathers met in theLateran Basilica. There were present fifteencardinals, the Latin Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch, tenarchbishops, fifty-sixbishops, someabbots and generals ofreligious orders, the ambassadors of Kings Ferdinand, and those ofVenice and of Florence. Convoked byJulius II, the assembly survived him, was continued byLeo X, and held its twelfth, and last, session on 16 March, 1517. In the third session Matthew Lang, who had represented Maximilian at the Council ofTours, read an act by which that emperor repudiated all that had been done atTours and atPisa. In the fourth session the advocate of the council demanded the revocation of thePragmatic Sanction ofBourges. In the eighth (17 December, 1513), an act of King Louis XII was read, disavowing theCouncil of Pisa and adhering to the Lateran Council. In the next session (5 March, 1514) thepope published four decrees:
APA citation.Leclercq, H.(1910).Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17). InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09018b.htm
MLA citation.Leclercq, Henri."Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 9.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1910.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09018b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Tomas Hancil.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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