First Council of Lyon

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First Council of Lyon
Date1245
Accepted by
cardinals, levy for the Holy Land
Chronological list of ecumenical councils
Innocent IV
– Council of Lyon

The First Council of Lyon (Lyon I) was the thirteenth ecumenical council, as numbered by the Catholic Church, taking place in 1245. This was the first ecumenical council to be held outside Rome's Lateran Palace after the Great Schism of 1054.

Proceedings

The First General Council of Lyon was presided over by

Ad Apostolicae Dignitatis Apicem,[1] as well as the Portuguese King Sancho II.[2] The council also directed a new crusade (the Seventh Crusade), under the command of Louis IX of France, to reconquer the Holy Land.[3]

At the opening, on 28 June, after the singing of the

East-West Schism; (4) the cruelties of the Tatars
in Hungary; and (5) the persecution of the Church by the Emperor Frederick.

The council of Lyon was rather poorly attended. Since the great majority of those bishops and archbishops present came from France, Italy and Spain, while the

metropolitanate of Kiev, who provided Innocent with intelligence on the Mongols prior to the council. His information, in the form of the Tractatus de ortu Tartarorum, circulated among attendees.[5]

The condemnation of the emperor was a foregone conclusion. The objections of the ambassador, that the accused had not been regularly cited, that the pope was plaintiff and judge in one, and that therefore the whole process was anomalous, achieved as little success as his appeal to the future pontiff and to a truly ecumenical council.[6]

At the second session on 5 July, the

bishop of Calvi and a Spanish archbishop attacked the emperor's behaviour, and in a subsequent session on 17 July, Innocent pronounced the deposition of Frederick. The deposition was signed by one hundred and fifty bishops and the Dominicans and Franciscans
were given the responsibility for its publication. However, Innocent IV did not possess the material means to enforce the decree.

The Council of Lyon promulgated several other purely disciplinary measures:

Among those attending was

Thomas Cantilupe who was made a papal chaplain and given a dispensation to hold his benefices in plurality.[9]

References

  1. ^ Bellitto 2002, p. 57.
  2. ^ Martínez 2010, p. 380.
  3. ^ Addington 1994, pp. 59–60.
  4. ^ Biller 2000, pp. 229–230.
  5. ^ Maiorov 2019, pp. 10–11.
  6. ^ Mirbt 1911, p. 177.
  7. ^ Richardson 2019, p. 541.
  8. ^ Dondorp & Schrage 2010, p. 44.
  9. ^ Ambler 2017, p. 148.

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