Profession of the supreme pontiff (Council of Basel)
- Profession of the supreme pontiff (Council of Basel)
The Council at Basel decreed, in its 23rd session (26 March 1436) that anyone elected Pope should make, as a condition for his election to be valid, the "profession of the supreme pontiff", a formula declaring recognition of the Council as a "General Council" that it drew up specifically for that purpose. [cite web
url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#15
title=COUNCIL OF BASEL (1431-1445)
publisher=Eternal Word Television Network
accessdate=2007-02-27] [cite book
title=De Gestis Concilii Basiliensis Commentariorvm
author=Aeneas Sylvius Piccolominus (Pius II)
authorlink=Pius II
editor=Wilfrid Kirk Smith, Denys Hay
pages=xix
year=1992
publisher=Oxford University Press
isbn=0198222017]
What the formula that each cardinal, meeting in conclave, was called upon to swear, declaring: "I shall not make obeisance to anyone elected as pontiff before he takes the "oath" prescribed by this council of Basel", [cite web
url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#15
title=COUNCIL OF BASEL (1431-1445)
publisher=Eternal Word Television Network
accessdate=2007-02-27] refers to as an oath must be this profession of faith.
No Pope actually made the Council's profession of faith apart from the Pope that the Council itself created, Felix V, who is not included in the list of popes, but only in that of Antipopes.
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