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or conference. In the history of the

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, it is frequently applied as a diminutive to gatherings of bishops or cardinals which do not have recognition as full or even regional

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or synods. An example is the 1511 council convened at Pisa by Louis XII of France and commonly called the Conciliabulum of Pisa, in opposition to

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, which brought together four cardinals.

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