Third Council of the Lateran

Third Council of the Lateran

Ecumenical council
council_name=Third Council of the Lateran
council_date=1179
accepted_by=Catholicism
previous=Second Council of the Lateran
next=Fourth Council of the Lateran
convoked_by=Pope Alexander III
presided_by=Pope Alexander III
attendance=302
topics=Catharism and Waldensianism, church discipline
documents=twenty-seven canons, limitation of papal election to the cardinals, condemnation of simony
The Third Council of the Lateran met in March, 1179 as the 11th ecumenical council. Pope Alexander III presided and 302 bishops attended.

Besides removing the remains of the recent antipope schism the council condemned the Waldensian and Cathar heresies and pushed for the restoration of ecclesiastical discipline. Three sessions were held, on 5, 14, and 19 March, in which 27 canons were promulgated. The most important of these were:
*Canon 1 stated that to prevent schisms in future, only cardinals should have the right to elect the pope, and two-thirds of their votes should be required for the validity of an election. If any candidate, after securing insufficient votes, should declare himself pope, both he and his supporters should be excommunicated.
*Canon 2 annulled the ordinations performed by the heresiarchs Octavian (Antipope Victor IV), Guy of Crema (Antipope Paschal III), and John de Struma (Antipope Callixtus III).
*Canon 3 forbade the promotion of anyone to the episcopate before the age of 30.
*Canon 5 forbade the ordination of clerics not provided with any means of proper support.
*Canon 7 forbade the exaction of money for burial of the dead, benediction, and the administration of the sacraments.
*Canon 9 recalled the military orders of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers to the observation of canonical regulations.
*Canon 11 forbade clerics to receive women in their houses or to frequent the monasteries of nuns; declared that married clergy should lose their benefices; and decreed that priests who engaged in sodomy should be deposed from clerical office and required to do penance.
*Canon 18 required every cathedral church to appoint a master to teach the clerics and the poor scholars of the church; this action helped launch the cathedral schools that later became universities. [ Nicholas Orme, Medieval Schools, , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. ]
*Canon 19 set the penalty of excommunication for those who levied contributions on churches and churchmen without the consent of the clergy.
*Canon 24 was a prohibition against furnishing the Saracens with material for the construction of their galleys.
*Canon 27 enjoined on princes the repression of heresy.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09017b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Third Lateran Council (1179)]
* [http://www.legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM11.HTM Third Lateran Council]


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