Ecumenical Councils

Ecumenical Councils
All Catholic Church Ecumenical Councils - All the Decrees
www.piar.hu/councils/

Eighteenth General Council - Fifth Lateran Council (New Advent)
The Fifth Lateran Council - New Advent Page
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09018b.htm

Eighth General Council - Fourth Council of Constantinople (New Advent)
The Eighth General Council was opened, 5 October, 869, in the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, under the presidency of the legates of Adrian II.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04310b.htm

Eleventh General Council - Third Lateran Council (New Advent)
The reign of Alexander III was one of the most laborious pontificates of the Middle Ages. Then, as in 1139, the object was to repair the evils caused by the schism of an antipope.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09017b.htm

Fifteenth General Council - Council of Vienne (New Advent)
The Council of Vienne was held in that town in France by order of Clement V, the first of the Avignon popes.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/15423a.htm

Fifth General Council - Second Council of Constantinople (New Advent)
This council was held at Constantinople (5 May-2 June, 553), having been called by Emperor Justinian.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308b.htm

First General Council - First Council of Nicaea (New Advent)
First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 325 on the occasion of the heresy of Arius (Arianism).
www.newadvent.org/cathen/11044a.htm

Fourteenth General Council - Second Council of Lyons (New Advent)
The Second General Council of Lyons was held by Pope Gregory X, the Patriarchs of Antioch and Constantinople, 15 cardinals, 500 bishops, and more than 1000 other dignitaries.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09476c.htm

Fourth General Council - Council of Chalcedon (New Advent)
The Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in 451, from 8 October until 1 November inclusive, at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/03555a.htm

Nineteenth General Council - Council of Trent (New Advent)
The Council of Trent lasted eighteen years (1545-1563) under five popes: Paul III, Julius III, Marcellus II, Paul IV and Pius IV, and under the Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/15030c.htm

Ninth General Council - First Lateran Council (New Advent)
The Council of 1123 is reckoned in the series of ecumenical councils.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09016b.htm

Second General Council - First Council of Constantinople (New Advent)
This council was called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308a.htm

Seventeenth General Council - Council of Basle/Ferrara/Florence (New Advent)
The Council of Basle met first in that town, Eugene IV being pope, and Sigismund Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/06111a.htm XVIII

Seventh General Council - Second Council of Nicaea (New Advent)
Seventh Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 787.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/11045a.htm

Sixteenth General Council - Council of Constance (New Advent)
The Council of Constance was held during the great Schism of the West, with the object of ending the divisions in the Church.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04288a.htm

Sixth General Council - Third Council of Constantinople (New Advent)
The Sixth General Council was summoned in 678 by Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, with a view of restoring between East and West the religious harmony that had been troubled by the Monothelistic controversies, and particularly by the violence of his predecessor Constans II, whose imperial edict, known as the "Typus" (648-49) was a practical suppression of the orthodox truth.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04310a.htm

Tenth General Council - Second Lateran Council (New Advent)
The death of Pope Honorius II (February, 1130) was followed by a schism.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09017a.htm

The 21 Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church (New Advent)
A good source for detailing each ecumenical council of the Church
www.newadvent.org/library/almanac_14388a.htm

Third General Council - Council of Ephesus (New Advent)
The third ecumenical council, held in 431.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/05491a.htm

Thirteenth General Council - First Council of Lyons (New Advent)
The First General Council of Lyons was presided over by Innocent IV; the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, and Aquileia (Venice), 140 bishops, Baldwin II, Emperor of the East, and St. Louis, King of France, assisted.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09476b.htm

Twelfth General Council - Fourth Lateran Council (New Advent)
From the commencement of his reign Innocent III had purposed to assemble an ecumenical council, but only towards the end of his pontificate could he realize this project, by the Bull of 19 April, 1213.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09018a.htm

Twentieth General Council - First Vatican Council (New Advent)
The Vatican Council was summoned by Pius IX. It met 8 December, 1869, and lasted till 18 July, 1870, when it was adjourned; it is still (1908) unfinished.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/15303a.htm

Twenty-First General Council - Second Vatican Council
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www.papalencyclicals.net/vatican2.htm

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