Fourth Lateran Council

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The Fourth Lateran Council was a landmark 13th-century ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that enacted wide-ranging reforms in doctrine, church discipline, and Christian society, including defining transubstantiation and regulating clerical and lay life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic Church council
Lateran Council
church council
ecumenical council
addressed clerical concubinage
organization of crusades
reform of clergy morals
relations between Christians and non-Christians
simony
usury
alsoKnownAs Fourth Lateran Council
surface form: IV Lateran Council

Lateran IV
approvedBy Pope Innocent III NERFINISHED
condemned Albigensian heresy
Trinitarian and Christological heresies
Waldensian churches
surface form: Waldensian heresy
convenedBy Pope Innocent III NERFINISHED
country Papal States NERFINISHED
definedDoctrine Christology
Trinitarian faith
transubstantiation
endDate 1215-11-30
followedBy First Council of Lyon
influenced canon law
church discipline in the Latin Church
medieval theology
sacramental theology
issuedDocumentType canons
location Lateran complex
surface form: Lateran Palace

Rome
numberInSequence 12th ecumenical council
numberOfCanons 70
partOf history of the Catholic Church
medieval church reform
precededBy Third Lateran Council
presidedOverBy Pope Innocent III NERFINISHED
promulgatedCanon Canon 1
Canon 21
Canon 68
Canon 69
Canon 70
regulated cathedral chapters
clerical life
ecclesiastical discipline
education of clergy
lay life
monastic orders
sacramental practice
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
required annual Communion at Easter
annual confession
establishment of schools in cathedral churches
startDate 1215-11-11
year 1215

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Fourth Lateran Council alsoKnownAs Fourth Lateran Council
this entity surface form: IV Lateran Council
Latin West associatedCouncil Fourth Lateran Council
Lotario dei Conti di Segni convened Fourth Lateran Council
Pope Innocent III convoked Fourth Lateran Council
Pope Innocent III councilDate Fourth Lateran Council
this entity surface form: Fourth Lateran Council, 1215
Transubstantiation definedByCouncil Fourth Lateran Council
Fifth Crusade (planning phase) hasKeyFigure Fourth Lateran Council
First Council of Lyon precededBy Fourth Lateran Council
this entity surface form: Fourth Council of the Lateran