19 April 1213 A.D. Innocent’s Bull that Leaders to Fourth Lateran Council—Opens 19 April 1213 & Closes 11 November 1215
19 April 1213 A.D. Innocent’s Bull that Leaders to Fourth Lateran Council—Opens 19 April 1213 & Closes 11 November 1215 Editors. “Lateran Council.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/331538/Lateran-Council . Accessed 8 Oct 2014. Lateran Council , any of the five ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic Church held in the Lateran Palace in Rome . The first Lateran Council, the ninth ecumenical council (1123), was held during the reign of Pope Calixtus II; no acts or contemporary accounts survive. The council promulgated a number of canons (probably 22), many of which merely reiterated decrees of earlier councils. Much of the discussion was occupied with disciplinary or quasi-political decisions relating to the Investiture Controversy settled the previous year by the Concordat of Worms; simony was condemned, laymen were prohibited from disposing of church property, clerics in major orders ...