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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

It was not until the First Lateran Council in 1123 that clerical marriage was clearly outlawed, and even after that priests, bishops and cardinals continued to skirt the rule by taking mistresses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maria Maggiore.25.Photius, i. 202-3.26.See the whole as read in the Lateran Council of Pope Martin, in Mansi, x. 1019-1025.27.Gregorovius, ii.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

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