Pope Martin V was born with the given name of Oddone Colonna in the year 1369 A.D., and died in 1431 A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1417 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1431 A.D., during the Renaissance. Martin V was from Rome, and his papal number is: 206 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Pope elected at Constance who restored unity after the Western Schism.
Biography:Martin V’s election at the Council of Constance ended the Western Schism and restored a universally recognized pope to the Church. His pontificate therefore marks one of the most important recoveries of unity in papal history.
He returned to Rome, rebuilt institutions, and began the long work of restoring papal government after decades of division. The papacy under him was less a triumphant monarchy than a patient restorer of normal life.
Martin V’s legacy is that of reunion, reconstruction, and the reestablishment of the Roman papacy after one of its gravest wounds.
