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First Lateran Council

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

First Lateran Council 1123, 9th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, summoned by Pope Calixtus II to signal the end of the investiture controversy by confirming the Concordat of Worms (1122). It was held in the Lateran Palace, Rome, making it the first council to be held in Western Europe. Many of the council's decrees became part of the evolving corpus of medieval Latin canon law. Author not available, LATERAN COUNCIL, FIRST. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Lateran Council
...five ecumenical councils of the Roman...church held in the Lateran Palace in Rome. The First Lateran Council (1123), held...The Second Lateran Council (1139) was called...pope. The Third Lateran Council (1179), held... Read more

Lateran Council
Lateran Council One of the synods or meetings of senior churchmen held at the Lateran Palace in Rome. The First in 1123 was to bring to an end the investiture contests and to specify which aspects of life should be governed by the church and...clarify doctrine and to heal the schism which had been ... Read more

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	Metropolitan might and papal power on the Latin-Christian frontier: Tranforming the Danish church around the time of the Fourth Lateran Council ; Even before the Fourth Lateran Council met in the autumn of 1215, contemporaries...possible to take part in such a great council." Surely, no prelate would want...Watt, for one, has called Fourth Lateran "the most comprehensive expression...sanguine interpretation of the council's place in the ... Read more
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	The Council of Bourges, 1225: A Documentary History ; The Council of Bourges, 1225:A...only for the Fourth Lateran Council, the Council of Bourges that met...explains that the council deserves study, not...these themes. The first task of the council was to adjudicate...innumerable details of the council's proceedings ... Read more
	The General Councils: A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II ; ...four sections: councils in the first millennium, councils in the Middle...turns to the four Lateran and the Vienne councils, focusing, not...on the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, whose...efforts of the Councils of Constance...the run up to Lateran V and the ... Read more
	Obituary: Fr Francis X. Murphy Pseudonymous reporter of the Second Vatican Council ; ...opening session of the Second Vatican Council. He went on to praise "that perspicacious...the account, which blew open the council's discussions. But Murphy's informed...and a theological adviser to the Council, was soon narrowed down as the likeliest...casuistry". Forty years after the council, ... Read more
	What really happened at Vatican II.('What Happened at Vatican II', 'Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition')(Book review) ; ...Second Vatican Council. Yet hundreds...twenty-one ecumenical councils, beginning with the First Council of Nicea in...remembered as another Lateran V--a reforming council that failed...a reforming council that was so...for sure. But Lateran V was small...an antipapal ... Read more
	The spirit of Vatican II.(A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975)(Book review) ; ...in a haze with Nicaea II and Lateran II. Their guileless ignorance...thought that the Second Vatican Council defined a whole new anthropological...of many interpreters of that council has now taken on a patina...an ineffable spirit of the council and knew that the path would... Read more
	El derecho canonico catalan en la baja Edad Media: La diocesis de Gerona en los siglos XIII y XIV ; ...Pp. 415. Paperback.) The Fourth Lateran Council, convoked by Pope Innocent III in...most important of the Ecumenical Councils in the history of the Church. Its...such reform were determined by the Council, its practical application was necessarily...diocesan synods in the century after ... Read more
	ON THIS DAY 11 NOVEMBER ; THE GREAT WAR ENDS 1215 The Fourth Lateran Council defines transubstantiation the process by which bread and wine...1880 Outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne Gaol. 1918 The First World War ends at 11am as Germany signs an armistice agreement... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...1995. Pp. xv + 377. $69.95; $18.95. A first-class general study of lay religiosity in the period between the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and the conclusion of the Fifth Lateran Council in 1515. Although written as a textbook... Read more

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