Fourth Lateran Council
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- noun
- Formal
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Cuarto Concilio de Letrán
- The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) gives the classical formulation: the faithful "must confess all their sins... to their own priest at least once a year."
- Fourth Lateran Council in 1215
Examples
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They first appear toward the end of the twelfth century before the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which is so decisive in their evolution that it can be called a symbol of their emergence.
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After the Fourth Lateran Council's establishment of the doctrine of transubstantiation in 1215, Christians throughout Europe feared for the safety of the sacred host in the presence of Jews.
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I wonder how many of our Catholic friends have heard of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215?
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Then in the first part of the 13th century, at the Fourth Lateran Council, the founding of new religious orders was suppressed.
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More generally, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 had decreed that no new orders were henceforth to be allowed.
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The Fourth Lateran Council had set down detailed instructions for both clergy and laity in the awareness of sin and the need for sacramental confession.
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This notion of ministry as being analogous to medical practice was ensconced in the Western tradition through Gregory the Great's Regula Pastoralis and had been incorporated into the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council.
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In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council established important doctrines for the Roman Catholic Church.
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The decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council addressed key reforms in the Church's practices and beliefs.
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Many scholars regard the Fourth Lateran Council as a pivotal moment in the development of Catholic theology.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The expression is compositionally built from 'fourth' (an ordinal), 'Lateran' (a place/proper name) and 'council' (an ecclesiastical assembly), so a learner who knows those words can infer it denotes the fourth church council held at the Lateran. While specific historical details (the year 1215 or doctrinal rulings) are not derivable from the parts, the basic referential meaning is directly predictable and follows common naming patterns for councils.
Etymology
Fourth Lateran Council was a large meeting of church leaders in Rome in 1215, held at the Lateran Palace and called 'fourth' because it followed three earlier Lateran meetings; at that gathering they made many church rules and announced the idea of 'transubstantiation', so the name now refers to that important moment in church history.