Lateran Council

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noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.

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Example Sentences

Trial by ordeal was outlawed by the Lateran Council in 1215.

From The Wall Street Journal

But monastic influences at the turn of the millennium led to the adoption of a celibacy requirement at the First Lateran Council of 1123, and that tradition has held ever since.

From New York Times

The Third Lateran Council in 1215 formally defined transubstantiation as the appropriate doctrine, thus beating out the Reformation by three hundred years.

From Time

All eyes were now bent on the Lateran Council which was to decide the fate of the land.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1179 he attended the Lateran Council at Rome, and in 1181 by the pope’s order he laid Scotland under an interdict.

From Project Gutenberg