Lateran

The Third Lateran Council and the Fourth Lateran Council are generally considered to be of much greater significance than Lateran I. However, Lateran I marked the first time a general and large Council had been held in the West.

Second Council of the Lateran (1139) reaffirmed Lateran I and addressed clerical discipline (dress, marriages).

Červená performed last year on Sept. 29 in Jan Zastera's oratorio ''Saint Ludmila'' at the Lateran Basilica in Rome to mark the Czech presidency of the European Union.

Pope Francis leads a Eucharistic procession to the Basilica of St. John Lateran where he offered Mass for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi on May 30, 2013.

In 1964, he was sent to study at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, where he received a doctorate in canon law.

Okwaraji, a licenced lawyer with a Masters in International Law from Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, was known for paying his own travel to Eagles games and refusing to accept allowances from the then-FA.

Born Stanley Grech, Cardinal Grech joined the Augustinian Order in 1943, was ordained to the priesthood at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome in 1950.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The historic signing of the Lateran Pacts between the Holy See and Italy 90 years ago is an important example of cooperation and peace that is needed in today’s world, a Vatican official said.

That goal was finally achieved by Pius XI in the 1929 Lateran Accords, which created the independent Vatican City State on a 108-acre tract surrounding St. Peter’s Basilica.

After the Great Schism of 1054, in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council declared, in its fifth canon, that the Roman Church "by the will of God holds over all others pre-eminence of ordinary power as the mother and mistress of all the faithful".

Anyone who loses Vatican citizenship and does not possess other citizenship automatically becomes an Italian citizen as provided in the Lateran Treaty.

As Easter approached, however, Eulalius returned to the city and attempted to seize the Basilica of St. John Lateran in order to "preside at the paschal ceremonies".

As St. Peter's Basilica was closed to them, Innocent instead crowned Lothair as emperor in the Lateran on 4 June 1133.

Christophorus died after three days, while Sergius was kept in a cell in the Lateran.

Decisions of Catholic Church councils—in particular, those of the Council of Tours (1163) and of the Third Council of the Lateran (1179)—had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

Fifth Council of the Lateran (1512–1517) addressed church reform.

For a time this power was assigned exclusively to the cardinal bishops, but the Third Lateran Council in 1179 gave back the right to the whole body of cardinals.

His remains were transferred to his tomb in the Basilica of St. John Lateran on 20 July 1742.

History leading to the Council The First Lateran Council was called by Pope Callistus II whose reign began February 1, 1119.

In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council used the word transubstantiated in its profession of faith, when speaking of the change that takes place in the Eucharist.