Contents ▼▲
Front Matter Christ and His Church The Apostolic Age Persecutions by the Roman Emperors The Great Heresies Monastic Life The Barbarian Nations of Europe The Temporal Power of the Popes The Greek Schism The Crusades The Church in the Middle Ages Benefits the Church Bestowed Trials of the Church The So-Called Reformation The Council of Trent The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century List of the Popes List of Ecumenical Councils

Short Catechism of Church History - J. Oechtering




List of the Ecumenical or General Councils.

(The Apostles held a Council at Jerusalem in the year 51.)

1. The First Council of Nice ( A.D. 325).

2. The First Council of Constantinople ( A.D. 381).

3. The Council of Ephesus ( A.D. 431).

4. The Council of Chalcedon ( A.D. 451).

5. The Second Council of Constantinople ( A.D. 553).

6. The Third Council of Constantinople ( A.D. 680–681.)

7. The Second Council of Nice ( A.D. 787).

8. The Fourth Council of Constantinople ( A.D. 869–870).

9. The First Council of the Lateran (Rome, A.D. 1123).

10. The Second Council of the Lateran (Rome, A.D. 1139).

11. The Third Council of the Lateran (Rome, A.D. 1179).

12. The Fourth Council of the Lateran (Rome, A.D. 1215).

13. The First Council of Lyons, France ( A.D. 1245).

14. The Second Council of Lyons ( A.D. 1274).

15. The Council of Vienne, France ( A.D. 1311–1312).

16. The Council of Constance, Germany ( A.D. 1414–1418).

17. The Council of Florence, Italy ( A.D. 1438–1439).

18. The Fifth Council of the Lateran ( A.D. 1512–1517).

19. The Council of Trent, Tyrol ( A.D. 1545–1563).

20. The Vatican Council, Rome ( A.D. 1869).

21. The Second Vatican Council, Rome ( A.D. 1962–1965).