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Fifth Lateran Council

[1512–1517]
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1512 - 1517
Location:
Italy
Rome
Participants:
Roman Catholicism
Key People:
Julius II
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Fifth Lateran Council, (1512–17), the 18th ecumenical council, convoked by Pope Julius II and held in the Lateran Palace in Rome. The council was convened in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the pope. The pope’s council had reform as its chief concern. It restored peace among warring Christian rulers and sanctioned a new concordat with France to supersede the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges of 1438. In dogmatic decrees the council affirmed the immortality of the soul and repudiated declarations of the Councils of Constance and Basel that had made church councils superior to the pope. The Orthodox churches do not accept any of the five Lateran councils as truly ecumenical.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Petruzzello.