April 1139 A.D. Second Council of Lateran—Dealt with “Antipope” Anacletus; Nullifed His Ordinations; Clerical Marriages Nullified; Clerical Dress-Operations
April 1139 A.D. Second Council of Lateran—Dealt with “Antipope” Anacletus; Nullifed His Ordinations; Clerical Marriages Nullified; Clerical Dress-Operations Tanner, Norman P. “Second Lateran Council (1139). Introduction and translation taken from Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils. N.d. http://www.legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM10.HTM . ccessed 27 Oct 2014. SECOND LATERAN COUNCIL (1139) Canons Introduction In Lent of 1139 a general council was summoned by Pope Innocent II and held in the Lateran basilica {1}. As we know, the synod had been convoked the previous year; for the papal legates in England and Spain pressed the bishops and abbots to go to the council. Thus, a good number of fathers, at least five hundred, met in Rome. One of these came from the East, the patriarch of Antioch, but he was a Latin. With the pope presiding the council began o...
