Catholic Church council

A Catholic Church council is a formal assembly of bishops and other church leaders convened to deliberate and decide on matters of doctrine, discipline, and church governance.

Aliases (12)

• church council ×32
• Catholic council ×5
• Christian council ×4
• episcopal conference ×4
• Christological council ×2
• Second Vatican Council declaration ×2
• Catholic Church event ×1
• Lateran Council ×1
• Roman synod ×1
• ecclesiastical meeting ×1
• extraordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops ×1
• synod of bishops ×1

Instances (62)

• Council of Chalcedon ("church council")
• Second Council of Constantinople ("church council")
• Third Council of Constantinople ("church council")
• Second Council of Nicaea ("church council")
• Synod of Dort ("church council")
• Council of Trent
• Council of Carthage (418) ("church council")
• Council of Orange (529) ("church council")
• Third Council of Toledo ("church council")
• Council of Florence
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ("episcopal conference")
• Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ("church council")
• Council of Jerusalem ("Christian council")
• Lateran Council of 649 ("church council")
• Dignitatis Humanae ("Second Vatican Council declaration")
• Nostra Aetate ("Second Vatican Council declaration")
• Council of Alexandria (AD 362) ("church council")
• First Vatican Council
• Executive Council of the Episcopal Church ("church council")
• Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2014) ("synod of bishops")
• Council of Elvira ("church council")
• Second Vatican Council ("Catholic council")
• Church Council ("church council")
• Third Ecumenical Council ("church council")
• IBC ("episcopal conference")
• Second Council of Ephesus ("Christian council")
• First Council of Nicaea ("church council")
• Primates’ Meeting ("ecclesiastical meeting")
• Council of Rome (1076) ("church council")
• Fourth Council of Toledo ("church council")
• Constantinople III ("church council")
• Iconoclasm ("church council")
• Fourth Council of Constantinople ("church council")
• Council of Hieria ("church council")
• First Council of Lyon
• International Old Catholic Bishops’ Conference ("episcopal conference")
• First Council of Constantinople ("church council")
• Local Council of 1917–1918 ("church council")
• Council of Ephesus ("church council")
• Second Council of Orange ("church council")
• Fourth Lateran Council ("church council")
• Episcopal Conference of Peru ("episcopal conference")
• Council of Constance ("church council")
• Council of Clermont ("church council")
• Council of Pisa ("church council")
• Council of Basel