Third Council Of The Lateran

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Third Council of the Lateran
Date	1179
Accepted by	Catholicism
Previous council	Second Council of the Lateran
Next council	Fourth Council of the Lateran
Convoked by	Pope Alexander III
Presided by	Pope Alexander III
Attendance	302
Topics of discussion	Catharism and Waldensianism, church discipline
Documents and statements	twenty-seven canons, limitation of papal election to the cardinals, condemnation of simony
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The Third Council of the Lateran met in March, 1179 as the 11th ecumenical council. Pope Alexander III presided and 302 bishops attended.

Besides removing the remains of the recent antipope schism the council condemned the Waldensian and Cathar heresies and pushed for the restoration of ecclesiastical discipline. Three sessions were held, on 5, 14, and 19 March, in which 27 canons were promulgated. The most important of these were:

Canon 1 stated that to prevent schisms in future, only cardinals should have the right to elect the pope, and two-thirds of their votes should be required for the validity of an election. If any candidate, after securing insufficient votes, should declare himself pope, both he and his supporters should be excommunicated.
Canon 2 annulled the ordinations performed by the heresiarchs Octavian (Antipope Victor IV), Guy of Crema (Antipope Paschal III), and John de Struma (Antipope Callixtus III).
Canon 3 forbade the promotion of anyone to the episcopate before the age of 30.
Canon 5 forbade the ordination of clerics not provided with any means of proper support.
Canon 7 forbade the exaction of money for burial of the dead, benediction, and the administration of the sacraments.
Canon 9 recalled the military orders of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers to the observation of canonical regulations.
Canon 11 forbade clerics to receive women in their houses, or to frequent the monasteries of nuns.
Canon 19 set the penalty of excommunication for those who levied contributions on churches and churchmen without the consent of the clergy.
Canon 24 was a prohibition against furnishing the Saracens with material for the construction of their galleys.
Canon 27 enjoined on princes the repression of heresy.

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The Second Lateran, and tenth ecumenical council was held by Pope Innocent II in April 1139, and was attended by close to a thousand clerics.

Its immediate task was to neutralize the after-effects of the schism, which had only been terminated in the previous year by the
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The Fourth Council of the Lateran was summoned by Pope Innocent III with his Bull of April 19, 1213. The assembly took place in November, 1215. It was the 12th ecumenical council and is sometimes called "the General Council of Lateran" due to the attendance by seventy-one
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Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – August 30, 1181), born Rolando Bandinelli, was Pope from 1159 to 1181.

He was born in Siena. For a long time, scholars believed him to be identical with the twelfth-century canon lawyer and theologian, Master Roland of Bologna,
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Catharism was a name given to a religious sect with gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th Century and flourished in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
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Waldensian Evangelical Church
Founders: Peter Waldo
Founding date: circa 1177; in 1532 acceded to Franco-Swiss Protestant Reform
Headquarters: Torre Pellice, Piemonte, Italy
Countries: International; but mainly Italy, France, Germany and South America.
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Simony is the ecclesiastical crime of paying for offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8:18-24.
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An antipope is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful Pope, in opposition to the Pope recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
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The word schism (IPA: /ˈsɪzəm/ or /ˈskɪzəm/), from the Greek σχίσμα, skhísma
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Heresy, as a blanket term, describes a practice or belief that is labeled as unorthodox. Christian heresy refers to unorthodox practices and beliefs that were deemed to be heretical by one or more of the Christian churches.
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''This article is about the day. For the 1993 novel, see The Fifth of March March 5 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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March 14 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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The word schism (IPA: /ˈsɪzəm/ or /ˈskɪzəm/), from the Greek σχίσμα, skhísma
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The Pope (from Latin: papa, father;^[1] from Greek πάπας (papas) = father - originally written πάππας (
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Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in communion. In some churches, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group.
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ordination is the process by which one is consecrated (set apart for the undivided administration of various religious rites). That is, it is the process in which clergy, monks or nuns are set apart and authorized by their religious denomination or non denominational seminary to
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A heresiarch (also hæresiarch, according to the Oxford English Dictionary) is a founder or leader of a heretical doctrine or movement, as considered by those who claim to maintain an orthodox religious tradition or doctrine.
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