Fourth Council of the Lateran
The best-attended church council of the Middle Ages, convened by Innocent III in the Lateran Palace; it affirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation and required all the faithful to go to confession every year.
- Date
- 11–30 November 1215exact date · duration: 19 daysDate in the Julian calendar
- Place
- Rometoday: Rome, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Pope Innocent III, Papal States
- Threads
- Europe and the Mediterranean in the 13th century
- Also known as
- Латеран IV
The council opened on 11 November and closed on 30 November 1215; hundreds of bishops and abbots from all over the Catholic world took part. It condemned the Cathars and other heresies, handed the lands of the Count of Toulouse to Simon de Montfort, forbade the clergy to take part in judicial ordeals, required Jews and Muslims to wear distinctive dress and prepared a new crusade.
Connections
Related events
- Albigensian Crusade1209–1229 · Western and Central EuropeThe council condemned the Cathars and handed the lands of the Count of Toulouse to Simon de Montfort
- “Summa Theologica” by Thomas Aquinas1265–1274 · Western and Central EuropeIn the Summa Thomas used the concepts of Aristotle’s philosophy to ground the doctrine of transubstantiation affirmed by the council
Same participants
- Imperial coronation of Otto I2 February 962 · Western and Central Europevia Papal States
- Sack of Rome (1527)6 May 1527 · Western and Central Europevia Papal States
Same place
- Great Fire of Rome19 July 64 – c. 27 July 64 · Western and Central Europe
- Inauguration of the Colosseum80 · Western and Central Europe
- Antonine Plague165–180 · Western and Central Europe
- Constitutio Antoniniana212 · Western and Central Europe
- Crisis of the Third CenturyMarch 235 – 20 November 284 · Western and Central Europe
- Aurelian Walls271–275 · Western and Central Europe
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge28 October 312 · Western and Central Europe
- Sack of Rome by the Visigoths24–27 August 410 · Western and Central Europe
- Vandal sack of Rome2–16 June 455 · Western and Central Europe
- Gothic War (535–554)535–554 · Western and Central Europe
- Coronation of Charlemagne25 December 800 · Western and Central Europe
Adjacent events in the thread
- Magna Carta15 June 1215 · Western and Central Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 5 years of this event
Eastern Europe
- Battle of Lipitsabetween 21 April and 22 April 1216
Africa
- Rock-hewn churches of Lalibelac. 1181 – c. 1221
Central and Northern Asia
- Siege of BukharaFebruary 1220
- Siege of SamarkandMarch 1220
- Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire1219–1221
East Asia
- Fall of Zhongdubetween April and June 1215
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Construction of Angkor Thom and the Bayon1181 – c. 1218
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Fourth Council of the Lateran
- Wikipedia (Russian): Четвёртый Латеранский собор
- Sayers J. Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216. — London: Longman, 1994.
- Wikidata: Q719992