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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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The Fourth Lateran Council renewed it in 1215.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018

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 • Mar. 10, 2017

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

From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public, but in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council made regular private confession the norm for the church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, as eighteenth he gives the fifth Lateran Council of a.d. 1512-1517.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

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