Fifth Council of the Lateran
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The Fifth Council of the Lateran, held between 1512 and 1517, was the eighteenth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church and was the last council before the Protestant Reformation and the Council of
Contemporary engraving of the city of Pisa
Council Trent
Pope Julius II, Bulla monitorii et declarationis, 1511
Louis XII of France, Litterae super abrogatione pragmatice sanctionis, 1512
Lateran Palace
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The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran, informally the Lateran Palace, is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in Rome.
Fifth Council of the Lateran
…the Council of Trent. This was the first time since 1213 that the Papal States would host an ecumenical council. It is so far the last time that Rome’s Lateran Palace (which had hosted 4 ecumenical councils in the past) has been the venue for such an event. It was convoked by Pope Julius II with a political motive…
Saint John in Lateran square with the Lateran Palace (left) and the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (right) and the Obelisk of the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmosis III in front
Copy of the Byzantine mosaics that used to be on the apse of the Leonian Triclinium, one of the main halls of the ancient Lateran palace
The remaining end wall of the Leonian Triclinium (right) shares a building with the Santa Scala (entrance at left), now across the square from the main Renaissance palace
Base of obelisk with citation of Emperor Constantine I