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Lateran Council
noun
, Roman Catholic Church.
- any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
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The fifth Lateran Council proclaimed anew the tenet of the imperishability of the spirit of man.
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By the Lateran Council of 1215 the publication of banns was made compulsory on all Christendom.
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Its decay was hastened by the decree of the fourth Lateran Council in 1215, which forbade ecclesiastics to take part in ordeals.
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At length, by the Lateran Council of 1215, the Church put an end to the institution, but long afterward it found its upholders.
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He was condemned for heresy by a Lateran Council in 1139, and retired from Italy.
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