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First Council of the Lateran
In March–April 1123, Pope Calixtus II convened the First Lateran Council at the Lateran Palace in Rome.…
Timeline
- 1122–1123Rome · RomeAfter the Concordat of Worms was signed in 1122, Calixtus II decided to convene an ecumenical council to announce to the whole Western Church the arrangements reached between the Empire and the papacy over episcopal elections and investiture with ring and staff, and to give them the authority of a council.
- 1123Lateran Palace · RomeAbout three hundred bishops and abbots gathered at the Lateran. The council confirmed the Concordat of Worms, passed canons banning simony, restricting clerical marriage and concubinage, and reforming monastic discipline, and reaffirmed protection for crusaders and pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- 1123Rome · RomeAfter the council adjourned, the canons spread through the provinces of the West, and the legal settlement of the Investiture Controversy received conciliar endorsement. Thereafter the Lateran became the fixed venue for ecumenical councils convened by the Roman Curia, setting a precedent for the Second Lateran Council of 1139.
Sources
- First Lateran Council https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Lateran-Council
- Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils — Norman P. Tanner (1990)
- The Papacy, 1073–1198: Continuity and Innovation — I. S. Robinson (1990)