Council of Vienne

The Council of Vienne was held from May 6, 1312 from 16 October 1311. This was the 15th General Council, and was convened by Pope Clement V.

The council decided that the Templars to them in 1307 in the Templar heresy and blasphemy accused process had not been established. This assumes, if only by the now bad reputation of the Order, this resolve to avert further damage to the Church. The Pope wore in other cops, including ad providam, the possession of the Templars to the Knights of St. John.

At the request of the Rhenish prelates the traveling Beginentum was generally forbidden and their religious habit, under penalty of excommunication banished ( bull Cum de quibusdam ). The rest of the Beguines and Begarden were deprived of privileges, such as the Sermon on Law and the Beichthörrecht as well as the woman pastoral care ( cura monialium ) is prohibited. In the bull Ad nostrum quia antinomian and auto theistic heresies have been condemned, partly on the basis of theorems that were taken from the mirror of simple souls of the Beguine Margareta Porete. The conviction and sentences cited therein formed the basis of the persecution of the Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit in the 14th century.

It was also the bull Super cathedram renewed by Boniface VIII. It was decreed that the mendicants each fourth part of their earnings ( and their inheritance claims ) had to deliver the church.

These decrees were not published until 1317, as Pope Clement V died shortly after the Council.

It was also decided that chairs of Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldean were set up in the Universities of Paris, Oxford, Bologna and Salamanca.