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| | Chalcedon, Council of  |
| | The Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in 451, from 8 October until 1 November inclusive, at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03555a.htm |
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| | Constance, Council of |
| | A (partly) ecumenical council held at Constance, now in the Grand Duchy of Baden, from 5 Nov., 1414, to 22 April, 1418.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04288a.htm |
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| | Constantinople, First Ecumenical Council of |
| | Called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308a.htm |
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| | Ephesus, Council of |
| | The third ecumenical council, held in 431.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05491a.htm |
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| | Lateran IV |
| | The Twelfth Ecumenical Council held in 1215. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.html |
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| | Nicaea, First Council of |
| | First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 325 on the occasion of the heresy of Arius. It defined the Nicene Creed.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11044a.htm |
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| | Nicaea, Second Council of |
| | A council that was called to deal with the heresy of Iconoclasm.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11045a.htm |
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| | The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent |
| | The Council of Trent was widely seen as the time the Catholic church decided to fight back against the reformation - and the Catechism of the Council of Trent was not replaced by the Catholic church until 1992. English translation from the original Latin.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent.html |
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| | The Church in Crisis A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 |
| | Text of the 1960 book by Monsignor Philip Hughes giving an historical background and an account of the proceedings of all the main Catholic ecumenical councils until Vatican I.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/coun0.html |
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| | The Ecumenical Councils of the Roman Catholic Church |
| | A list of summaries of the main facts of each recognised council.
http://www.catholicism.org/pages/ecumenic.htm |
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