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
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
The great Lateran Council, held at the beginning of the century, required every bishop to establish professorships equivalent to what we now call a college in connection with his cathedral.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
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