Pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
The pope who watched Constantinople fall and tried to rebuild Rome as the answer — fortifications, aqueducts, plans for a new St. Peter's — turning the Renaissance into a Catholic response to Ottoman advance.
Tommaso Parentucelli, born 15 November 1397, became a cardinal in 1446 after diplomatic work in Italy and Germany, then pope on 6 March 1447, taking the name Nicholas in honor of Niccolò Albergati. His eight years at the head of the Church coincided with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans and the end of the Hundred Years' War; he called for a crusade that never came. Through the Concordat of Vienna he secured papal control over bishoprics and benefices, and he brought the last antipope, Felix V, to submit, ending the Synod of Basel. He poured energy into making Rome a capital of litera…
Sourced, dated quotes from Pope Nicholas V
Only the learned who have studied the origin and development of the authority of the Roman Church, can really understand its greatness.
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