Councils and synods

The canons of the councils the Enciclopedia Cattolica cites, in the original text and, where one exists, an older English translation. Every citation in the encyclopedia links to its canon.

• Council of Elvira c. 300-306
• Council of Ancyra AD 314
• First Council of Arles AD 314
• Council of Neocaesarea c. 314-325
• First Council of Nicaea AD 325
• Council of Gangra c. 340-341
• Council of Antioch (in Encaeniis) AD 341
• Council of Laodicea c. 343-381
• Council of Sardica AD 343
• First Council of Carthage (under Gratus) c. 345-348
• Apostolic Canons c. 380 (compiled in Syria)
• Roman Synod under Pope Damasus (the "Tome of Damasus") c. 380 (377-382)
• First Council of Constantinople AD 381
• Council of Hippo (Breviarium Hipponense) AD 393
• Third Council of Carthage AD 397
• First Council of Toledo AD 400
• Synod of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Synod of Mar Isaac) AD 410
• Council of Carthage (against the Pelagians) AD 418
• Code of Canons of the African Church (Council of Carthage, 419) AD 419
• Council of Ephesus AD 431
• First Council of Orange AD 441
• So-called Second Council of Arles c. 442-506 (traditionally 443 or 452)
• First Council of Vaison AD 442
• Council of Chalcedon AD 451
• Council of Angers AD 453
• Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua (so-called Fourth Council of Carthage) c. 475 (southern Gaul; transmitted as a Council of Carthage of 398)
• Council of Agde AD 506
• First Council of Orléans AD 511
• Council of Tarragona AD 516
• Council of Epaon AD 517
• Council of Gerona (Girona) AD 517
• Council of Lérida 524 (some editions 546)
• Second Council of Orange AD 529
• Council of Clermont (Auvergne) AD 535
• Fourth Council of Orléans AD 541
• Fifth Council of Orléans AD 549
• Second Council of Constantinople AD 553
• First Council of Braga 561 (often dated 563)
• Second Council of Tours AD 567
• Second Council of Braga AD 572
• Synod of Auxerre c. 573-603 (often dated 578 or 585)
• First Council of Mâcon 581/583
• Second Council of Mâcon AD 585
• Council of Narbonne AD 589
• Third Council of Toledo AD 589
• Synod of Toledo (597) AD 597
• Fourth Council of Toledo AD 633
• Seventh Council of Toledo AD 646
• Ninth Council of Toledo AD 655
• Council of Bordeaux AD 663–675
• Eleventh Council of Toledo AD 675
• Council in Trullo (Quinisext) AD 692
• Roman Synod of 721 under Gregory II AD 721
• Concilium Germanicum (Council held in Austrasia by Carloman and St. Boniface) AD 742
• Council of Clovesho AD 747
• Decree of the Synod of Verberie 756 (Boretius: 758-768?)
• Decree of the Synod of Compiègne AD 757
• Second Council of Nicaea AD 787
• Admonitio generalis of Charlemagne (Aachen, 789) AD 789
• Synod of Frankfurt AD 794
• Statutes of the Synods of Riesbach and Freising AD 800
• Statutes of the Synod of Salzburg AD 800
• Council of Chalon-sur-Saône AD 813
• Council of Mainz AD 813
• Monastic Capitulary of Aachen (817) AD 817
• Council of Paris AD 829
• Council of Meaux-Paris AD 845–846
• Council of Mainz AD 847
• Council (Synod) of Quierzy, 853 AD 853
• Third Council of Valence, 855 AD 855
• Council of Worms AD 868
• Council of Nantes uncertain (Mansi: c. 895; older collections c. 658)
• Roman Synod of 898 under John IX AD 898
• Synod of Ravenna under Archbishop Gerbert AD 998
• Synod of Seligenstadt AD 1023
• Council of Coyanza AD 1050
• Council of Compostela AD 1056
• Roman Synod of 1059 (Lateran, under Nicholas II) AD 1059
• Council of Tours AD 1060
• Council of Gerona AD 1068
• Synod of Benevento AD 1091
• Council of Clermont AD 1095
• First Lateran Council AD 1123
• Second Lateran Council AD 1139
• Council of Tours AD 1163
• Third Lateran Council AD 1179
• Fourth Lateran Council AD 1215
• Provincial Council of Cologne under Archbishop Conrad of Hochstaden AD 1260
• Second Council of Lyons AD 1274
• Diocesan Synod of Exeter (Bishop Peter Quivil) AD 1287
• Diocesan Synod of Würzburg (Bishop Manegold) AD 1298
• Diocesan Synod of Bayeux c. 1300
• Council of Trent AD 1545–1563
• First Vatican Council AD 1869–1870