Lateran Council

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

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

The fifth Lateran Council proclaimed anew the tenet of the imperishability of the spirit of man.

By the Lateran Council of 1215 the publication of banns was made compulsory on all Christendom.

Its decay was hastened by the decree of the fourth Lateran Council in 1215, which forbade ecclesiastics to take part in ordeals.

At length, by the Lateran Council of 1215, the Church put an end to the institution, but long afterward it found its upholders.

He was condemned for heresy by a Lateran Council in 1139, and retired from Italy.

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