AD 1215
Fourth Lateran Council
Reform of clergy and laity, the Albigensian and Waldensian movements, and preparations for a crusade.
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- Location
- The Lateran Basilica, Rome
- Leaders
- Pope Innocent III, with more than four hundred bishops and many lay envoys
- Issues discussed
- Doctrinal statements against dualist teaching
- Pastoral obligations of bishops and priests
- Decisions made
- Required annual confession and Easter communion of the faithful
- Used the term 'transubstantiated' of the Eucharist for the first time in a conciliar text
- Imposed discriminatory dress rules on Jews and Muslims
- Historical impact
- The most influential medieval council for ordinary parish life; several of its measures against religious minorities are today acknowledged as unjust.
- Original documents
Sources and References
- Text of the seventy constitutionspapalencyclicals.net