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Definition of Lateran council

1. Noun. Any of five general councils of the Western Catholic Church that were held in the Lateran Palace.

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Literary usage of Lateran council

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"addressing the Fifth lateran council (1512) reckons among its chief objects ecclesiastical reform ; before its opening he had named a commission which was ..."

2. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"What passed between them related to peace on the part of Maximilian and Venice.* The eighth session of the lateran council was held solemnly on Sunday the ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The culminating point of Alexander's success was marked by the Third Lateran Council (Mar.,). Besides approving the crusade against the Cathari of southern ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... as had been provided at the lateran council of 1215, was to be undertaken in 1217. To procure the means necessary for this colossal undertaking, ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The first lateran council (the ninth ecumenical) was opened by Pope Calixtus ... At the third lateran council (eleventh ecumenical), which met in March 1179 ..."

6. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1903)
"A tribunal to inquire into and suppress heresy, established by Innocent III at the Fourth lateran council in 1215. It was introduced into Germany in 1231, ..."

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