INTRODUCTION 1 [This is the introduction given by Tanner in Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils] This council was summoned by John XXIII, the Pisan pope [1 ] , with the…
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BULLS OF CLEMENT V ON THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Vox in excelso – 22 MARCH 1312 Ad providam – 2 MAY 1312 Considerantes – 6 MAY 1312 Nuper in…
Second Council of Lyons – 1274 A.D.CONTENTS C O N S T I T U T I O N S IntroductionAfter the death of Pope Clement IV (29 November 1268)…
CONTENTSINTRODUCTION Bull Deposing The Emperor Frederick II CONSTITUTIONS I On rescripts Those to whom cases should be entrusted Curtailing legal expenses On challenging elections etc. Only unconditional votes valid Jurisdiction…
C O N S T I T U T I O N S Confession of Faith On the error of abbot Joachim On Heretics On the pride of the Greeks…
Third Lateran Council – 1179 A.D. canons IntroductionBy an agreement reached at Venice in 1177, the bitter conflict which had arisen about twenty years earlier between Pope Alexander III (1159-1181)…
Canons INTRODUCTION In 1123, during the pontificate of Pope Callistus II, a general Roman council was held “for various important matters of the church”, as Callistus himself says in the…
CONTENTS Definition Canons INTRODUCTION This council, designated as the eighth ecumenical council by western canonists, is not found in any canonical collections of the Byzantines; its acts and canons are…
Second Council of Nicaea – 787 A.D.Contents Definition Anathemas concerning holy images CANONS INTRODUCTION A recommendation to summon an ecumenical council, in order to correct the iconoclast heretics, had been…
Contents Exposition of faith INTRODUCTION To make an end of the Monothelite controversy, Emperor Constantine IV asked Pope Donus in 678 to send twelve bishops and four western Greek monastic…