Preparations for the Fourth Lateran Council

Name: Preparations for the Fourth Lateran Council
Start: 1210
End: 1213

Type Event Region Europe Time 1210–1213

Around 1210, Pope Innocent III promoted church reform and drafted council agendas in Rome, laying the institutional groundwork for the Fourth Lateran…

Timeline

1210Roman Curia · RomeInnocent III ordered papal theologians and jurists to draft council agendas, focusing on clerical celibacy, Eucharistic ritual, and the punishment of heresy, laying the foundation for the Lateran Council's proceedings.
1211–1213Rome · LazioThe Curia solicited reform opinions from dioceses across Europe while incorporating Fifth Crusade mobilization into council agenda planning, coordinating secular and ecclesiastical interests to advance unified transnational church action.

Sources

Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World? — James M. Powell (1963)
The Fourth Lateran Council: Constitutions on the Reform of the Church (2016)