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 Christianity / ecumenical council
Council of Vienne, (1311–1312) - Disbanded Knights Templar
Council of Siena, (1423–1424) is the high point of conciliarism, emphasizing the leadership of the bishops gathered in council.
Council of Trent, (1545–1563, discontinuously); response to the challenges of Calvinism and Lutheranism; imposition of uniformity in liturgy in the Roman Rite (the "Tridentine Mass"), clearly defined canon.
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 Nepi and Sutri
Sutri is placed, like a hanging garden, upon a steep hill on the Cassian Way; the ancient town occupied two hills connected by a bridge, and its walls, built of great tufa rocks, are yet to be seen.
The history of Sutri in antiquity resembles that of Nepi, for Sutri also was taken by the Lombards in 569, but was retaken by the exarch Romanus; Luitprand likewise took the town in 726, but in the following year restored it to "St. Peter".
Two famous synods were held at Sutri, one in 1046, at which Sylvester III was deposed, and resigned the tiara; the other in 1059, was held against Benedict IX.
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 A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.8, C.6.
Their consciousness of their new responsibility is seen in the series of general councils which they begin to summon, one in every generation, and which are concerned primarily with the exposition of a standard of Catholic life, and with regulations designed to maintain that standard.
There are six [ ] such councils in a hundred and fifty years and the greatest of them all is the one summoned by Innocent III in 1215 -- the Fourth Council of the Lateran.
The excommunication of the barons in rebellion against John was confirmed, and the council also assented to the pope's suspension of Cardinal Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, for his support of the rebels.
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Athanasius could not sit as a judge in the council, because he was not a bishop, but he was allowed to speak in the presence of the bishops, and pointed out to them the errors which Arius tried to hide.
The emperor attended the council during the latter part of its sittings; and a story is told of him and a bishop named Acesius, who belonged to the sect of Novatianists.
Councils were almost continually sitting in /one place or another, 052 and bishops were posting about to one of them after another at the emperor's expense.
biblestudy.churches.net /CCEL/R/ROBERTSO/CHURCHHI/CHURCHHI.TXT   (19254 words)

  
 A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.5, C.1.
[ ] This was effectuated at the Council of Sutri (December 20, 1046).
The new electoral law was promulgated in the decree of a council held in the Lateran in April, 1059.
The legates who came from the council with the official communication of its decrees, were refused a hearing, and a council of German bishops condemned the pope and declared his laws null and void.
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 Eccumenical Council of Florence and Council of Basel
Eccumenical Council of Florence and Council of Basel
This move was supported by the council fathers loyal to the pope, who however were in a minority, and in the 25th session they voted for the city of Ferrara.
In it the definition of the sacred council of Chalcedon about the two natures and the one person of Christ was renewed and many errors of Origen and his followers, especially about the penitence and liberation of demons and other condemned beings, were refuted and condemned.
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 A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes
At these councils all that was wrong locally was investigated, the bishops were reminded of the kind of men they were supposed to be, indeed obliged to be by God's law, the old regulations about simony and clerical continency were renewed, incorrigible prelates were deposed, and a general revival of religious life inaugurated.
This was the law enacted in a council at the Lateran in 1050, which restricted the election to the cardinals.[4a] To them alone it belongs, henceforth, to elect the pope, and a majority of their votes is essential and sufficient.
The canons promulgated at the council, which cover all the social and religious problems of the day, are hardly of a nature to provoke discussion-- remedies, sternly stated in the shape of prohibitions, for the various moral ills of public and private life.
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 Third Council of Constantinople - Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The chief doctrinal conclusion of the council is that Jesus has two wills as well as two natures (divine and human), and that those two wills did not conflict with or strive against each other.
When the Emperor Constantine IV first summoned the council he had no intention that it would be ecumenical.
The sessions of the council were held in the domed hall (or possibly chapel) in the imperial palace; which, the Acts tell us, was called Trullo (εν ώ σεκρετω του Θειου παλτιου τη ουτη λεγομενω Τρουλλω).
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 First Council of Constantinople: Information from Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was rejected by the Papal Legates at the Council of Chalcedon.
At the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 the Roman legates (J.
cit., XXII, 991), this was formally admitted for the new Latin patriarch, and in 1439, at the Council of Florence, for the Greek patriarch (Hefele-Leclercq, Hist.
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 Assemblies and Visitations
The popes regularly called ecumenical councils for the purposes of raising a crusade against the Muslims, of restoring peace (if there was a state of war) or restoring Christian unity (with the Orthodox), and of reforming the Church.
Charlemagne’s Council of Frankfort in 794 established diocesan boundaries, determined that clergy would be tried in Church courts, and emphasized the role of Bishops as responsible for their priests.
His Council at Reims in France in 1049 began the project of requiring canonical elections for bishops; their being named by a secular prince or king was no longer sufficient.
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 Lateran Councils
The Lateran councils were five ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic church held during the 12th, 13th, and 16th centuries at the Lateran Palace in Rome.
It was a council of much the same kind, in its procedure, in its legislation, and in the vast interest it aroused, and it should be seen as complementary to the council of 1123.
When the council began in the Lateran basilica in November 1215 there were present 404 bishops from throughout the western church, and from the Latin eastern church a large number of abbots, canons and representatives of the secular power.
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 Council of Sutri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is not listed by the Catholic Church as an ecumenical council.
Silvester was stripped of his sacerdotal rank and exiled to a monastery.
Gregory resigned (apparently his words were:"I, Gregory, bishop, servant of the servants of God, do hereby adjudge myself to be removed from the pontificate of the Holy Roman Church, because of the enormous error which by simoniacal impurity has crept into and vitiated my election."), and the council ended on December 23.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Council_of_Sutri   (678 words)

  
 ☞ SUTRI: Questions and answers about Castelnovo ne´ Monti and Lama Macogno.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sutri: The council of the style used as the pope.
Eli Gutterman Sutri, 10 B. Here also found that the Alhambra Sutri, is ilpontaccio or Sutri, if you prefer the modern of shouting to the altar.
Sutri: The Council of Sutri (or Synod of Sutri) was called by Pope Gregory VI at the behest of Henry III.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Upon This Rock
However even the decrees of an ecumenical council are not binding on the whole Church unless and until, and to the extent that, they are confirmed by the Pope.
Pope St. Leo II (681-683) did confirm the acts of the council, but he also noted explicitly that Pope Honorius was being condemned for tardiness and negligence in not denouncing the Monothelite heresy sooner.
As the supreme pontiff decides, so shall we obey." The imperially sponsored Council of Sutri in 1046 persuaded Pope Gregory VI to resign, but doubted its authority to depose him, which in any case was not attempted because of his resignation.
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 The papacy, religious change and church reform, 1049-1125: The council of Sutri
The eleventh-century accounts of Gregory VI's pontificate and the events at Sutri are frequently coloured by their author's views about what should have happened.
Bishop Bonizo of Sutri, writing in the 1080s, gave a view of events which showed that although Gregory VI (from the best of motives) had been guilty of simony, he had deposed himself; no one at the council had presumed to judge him, because a pope could be judged by no earthly power.
Bonizo of Sutri on Henry III and the popes of 1046
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 STATE OF THE PAPACY - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy. The Historical Alternative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But this state of things was such a scandal that the emperor, Henry III, was invited from Germany to put an end to it, and for this purpose he held a council at Sutri, not far from Rome, in 1046.
Two of the popes were set aside, and the third, Gregory VI, who was the best of the three, was drawn to confess that he had given money to get his office, because he wished to use the power of the papacy to bring about some kind of reform.
This had never struck Gregory before; but when told of it by the council he had no choice but to lay aside his papal robes, and the emperor put one of his own German bishops into the papacy.
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 Pope Gregory VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gregory VI, né John Gratian, date of birth unknown; elected 1 May 1045; abdicated at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046; died probably at Cologne, in the beginning of 1048.
He strove to effect the latter by letters and by councils, and the former by force of arms.
He was received by Henry III with all the honour due to a Pope, and in accordance with the royal request, summoned a council to meet at Sutri.
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 Circle of Prayer - The Church in Crisis - A History of the General Councils 325 to 1870 - Chapter 9
that the First General Council of the Lateran must be described, or we shall be left wondering what there was, in its achievement of a score of routine legal enactments, to cause its memory to survive where so much else has perished.
This was the law enacted in a council at the Lateran in 1050, which restricted the election to the cardinals.
Explains the nature and function of General Councils, and tells how each was called and what it accomplished, in the context of the climate of the times, the men who took part, and the intellectual currents which lay behind the final pronouncements.
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 Popes Who Have Taken the Name Benedict
obtained at the council of Sutri the deposition of the three competing popes, and replaced them by Suidger, bishop of Baniberg, who took the name of Clement IL But before the close of 1047 Clement II.
The failure of these negotiations, for which he was only in part responsible, led to the universal movement of indignation an.d impatience, which ended, in France, in the declaration of neutrality (5408), and at Pisa, in the decree of deposition against the two pontiffs (5409).
Benedict XIII., who had on his part tried to call together a council at Perpignan, was by this time recognized hardly anywhere but in his native land, in Scotland, and in the estates of the countship of Armagnac.
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 Amazon.com: "First Lateran Council": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The college o f cardinals I I I general council: that of Conrad of Constance in the First Lateran Council of 1123, that of Godehard of Hildesheim in the council of Rheims of 1131 and that of Sturmi of Fulda...
By the sixteenth century, some of them, beginning with the First Lateran Council of 1123, were regarded and counted as ecumenical councils in the western church.`j6 A canonical principle, based on the early...
Finally, the First Lateran Council (1123) in its decrees shows much regard for the rights of local diocesan bishops in their sacramental ministry.
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 ARTICLE-UPON THIS ROCK
Pope St. Leo II (681-683) did confirm the acts of the council, but he also noted explicitly that Pope Honorius was being condemned for tardiness and negligence in not denouncing the Monothe lite heresy sooner.
Finally, and probably most significant, are the two instances of attempted deposition of a Pope by an ecumenical council, which surely should have the power to depose a Pope if anyone does.
The true Pope, Gregory XII, then officially recognized this council on the condition that they acknowledge him as true Pope, and immediately resigned after they had done so, in order to bring the schism to an end.
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 Pope Benedict IX
He sold his rights to his godfather, the priest Johannes Gratianus, who was installed under the name of Pope Gregory VI (1045).
The following year Henry III obtained at the council of Sutri the deposition of the three competing popes, and replaced them by Suidger, bishop of Baniberg, who took the name of Pope Clement II.
But before the close of 1047 Clement II died, probably from poison administered by Benedict, who was reinstalled for the third time.
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 List of popes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suppressed the Knights Templar at the Council of Vienne.
Nephew of Sixtus IV; Convened the Fifth Council of the Lateran, 1512.
Reopened the Council of Trent, 1562, it concluded its proceedings in 1563
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 Sketches of Church History - TABLE OF DATES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The First General Council held at Nicaea -- Arius condemned -- The Nicene Creed made
Second General Council held at Constantinople -- Gregory withdraws from his see
Third Council of Toledo -- The Spanish Church renounces Arianism
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 Benedict IX - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He sold his rights to his godfather, the priest Johannes Gratianus, who was installed under the name of Gregory VI.
obtained at the council of Sutri the deposition of the three competing popes, and replaced them by Suidger, bishop of Bamberg, who took the name of Clement II.
But before the close of 1047 Clement II.
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 Can the Pope Retire?
However, the deal promised Benedict IX was broken, motivating Benedict IX to reclaim the papacy.
King Henry III of Germany, who was very interested in reforming the Church, called the Council of Sutri in 1046 and summoned Benedict IX, Sylvester III and Gregory VI.
Only the latter two appeared before the council, but all three were deposed.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0786.html   (1221 words)

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