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Pope Martin I brought forcibly to Constantinople. His exile and death. Pope Leo II and the condemnation of Honorius. | ||
The Seventh General Council (Second Council of Nicaea, 787) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Iconoclasm. Empress Irene and Pope Adrian I. Council is transferred. The Iconoclast conciliabulum of 754 condemned. Charlemagne and the Frankish bishops. Ecclesiastical appointments. Secularized monasteries. Jews. Double monasteries. | ||
The Eighth General Council (Fourth Council of Constantinople, ii 869–70) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Circumstances contributing to its convocation. The schism of Photius and Pope Adrian II. Photius is banished. His hatred of the Latins. Pseudosynodus Photiana. Interstices. Unity of rational soul in man. Implicit recognition of Constantinople's priority. | ||
The Ninth General Council (First Lateran Council, 1123) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Pope Callistus II and the investiture quarrel. Concordat of Worms. It was a compromise solution of a vexed problem. Clerical incontinence. Truce of God. Counterfeiters of money. Monks and the cura animarum. Married clerics. | ||
The Tenth General Council (Second Lateran Council, 1139) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Pope Innocent II and the antipope Anacletus II. Council is called to remove evil consequences of schism. Simony. Masses celebrated by married priests. Tournaments. Incendiarism. Right of asylum. Consanguinity and affinity. | ||
The Eleventh General Council (Third Lateran Council, 1179) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Pope Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa. Papal elections. Episcopal visitation of churches. Right of devolution. Exempt religious. Schools for clerics and poor students. Lepers. Notorious usurers. Jews and Saracens. | ||
The Twelfth General Council (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| The council marks the zenith of papal power. Innocent III and reform. Exposition of the faith. Joachim of Flora and Peter Lombard. Bishops and preaching. Schools for clerics and poor students. Spiritual duties of physicians. Three forms of election. Judicial jurisdiction. Consanguinity and affinity. Clandestine marriages. Banns of matrimony. Monks and tithes. Simony. Jews and tithes. They may not hold public office. | ||
The Thirteenth General Council (First Council of Lyons, 1245) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Innocent IV and Frederick II. Their contest for world sovereignty. Innocent as determined as Gregory IX to defend the rights of the Church. His flight from Rome. Summons council. His five sorrows. The Latin Empire of Constantinople. The Holy Land. Tatar invasion of Europe. Murder by hired assassins. Judicial injustice. Directions for imposing excommunication. | ||
The Fourteenth General Council (Second Council of Lyons, 1274) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Gregory X and the liberation of the Holy Land. The Greeks desire reunion with Rome. Are at the council. Death of St. Bonaventure and of St. Thomas | ||
