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JOHN OF SEGOVIA

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A Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century;
d. probably in 1458. Nothing is known of him before he took part in the Council
of Basle, except that he was archdeacon at Villaviciosa, canon at Toledo, and
professor of theology at the University of Salamanca. In 1432 the University of
Salamanca and King John II of Castile sent him as their representative to the
Council of Basle, where he was one of the ablest defenders of the superiority of
the council over the pope. At first he endeavoured to mitigate the conflict
between the council and Pope Eugene IV, with whom he spent some time at Florence
in 1435, but afterwards he became one of the chief supporters of the
revolutionary party at the council. He took part in the twenty-eighth session (1
October, 1437) at which Eugene IV was declared contumacious, and in the
thirty-third session (16 May, 1439) at which the pope was declared a heretic. In
March, 1439, John of Segovia represented the council at the Diet of Mainz. After
Eugene IV was deposed by the council on 25 June, 1439, John of Segovia was
appointed one of the committee whose duty it was to select a number of
theologians to elect the new pope. He was one of the thirty-three who on 5
November, 1439, elected the antipope Felix V. In recognition for his services he
was created cardinal by the antipope on 12 October, 1440. He represented Felix V
at the Parliament of Bourges in 1440, at the Diet of Mainz in 1441, and that of
Frankfort in 1442. At the end of the schism in 1449 he resigned the cardinalate,
was appointed titular Bishop of Caesarea by Eugene IV, and retired to a Spanish
monastery.



His most important literary work is an extensive history of the Council of
Basle, "Historia generalis concilii Basiliensis. Libri XVIII", edited by Birk
and Beer in "Monumenta conciliorum generalium saeculi decimi quinti: Scriptor.",
II-IV (Vienna, 1873-96). His other works are a treatise in favour of the
Immaculate Conception of our Lady, printed at Brussels in 1664; a refutation of
the Koran, entitled "De mittendo gladio in Saracenos"; a defense of the
"Filioque" against the Greeks entitled "De processu Spiritus Sancti" (Basle,
1476); a Biblical concordance, "Concordantiae biblicae vocum indeclinabilium"
(Basle, 1476); and a few works defending the superiority of a general council
over the pope.


SOURCES

ZIMMERMANN, Juan de Segovia (Breslau 1882), ANTONIO, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus,
II (Madrid. 1788), 225-34; HALLER, Concilium Basiliense, Studien und Dokumente,
I (Basle, 1896), 19-52.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Ott, M. (1910). John of Segovia. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08479a.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "John of Segovia." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08479a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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