Lateran Council
Americannoun
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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
Celibacy was required of the Latin clergy as early as the 4th century and reaffirmed by the Second Lateran Council of 1139.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Lateran Council was asserted to have no force for he who held it has been deposed, “Deposed he was not,” said Maximus, “but expelled.”
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
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