The First Council of Lyon (Lyons I) was the Thirteenth Ecumenical Council and took place in 1245. Events Rebellion against king Sancho II of Portugal in favor of his brother Alphonso. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Roman Catholic Church. ... The Fourth Council of the Lateran was summoned by Pope Innocent III with his Bull of April 19, 1213. ... Innocent IV, born Sinibaldo de Fieschi (Genoa, 1180/90 – Naples, December 7, 1254), Pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to the feudal nobility of Liguria, the Fieschi, counts of Lavagna. ... Innocent IV, born Sinibaldo de Fieschi (Genoa, 1180/90 – Naples, December 7, 1254), Pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to the feudal nobility of Liguria, the Fieschi, counts of Lavagna. ... Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250. ... This article is about historical Crusades . ... The term Great Schism refers to either of two splits in the history of Christianity: Most commonly, it refers to the great East-West Schism, the event that separated Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Roman Catholicism in the eleventh century (1054). ... The Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France from 1248 to 1254. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ... In Christianity, an ecumenical council or general council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ... In Christianity, an ecumenical council or general council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ... Events Rebellion against king Sancho II of Portugal in favor of his brother Alphonso. ...

The First General Council of Lyon was presided over by Innocent IV. Innocent IV, threatened by Emperor Frederick II, arrived at Lyon December 2, 1244, and early in 1245 summoned the bishops and princes to the council. The chronicle of the Benedictine monastery of St Peter at Erfurt states that two hundred and fifty prelates responded; the Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, and Aquileia (Venice), 140 bishops, the Latin emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople, Louis IX of France, Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, and Raymond Bérenger IV, Count of Provence were among those who participiated. It excommunicated and deposed Emperor Frederick II and directed a new crusade (the Seventh Crusade), under the command of Louis, against the Saracens and Mongols. Innocent IV, né Sinibaldo de Fieschi ( 1180/90 - December 7, 1254), pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to one of the first families of Genoa, and, educated at Parma and Bologna, passed for one of the best canonists of his time. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 1244. ... Events Rebellion against king Sancho II of Portugal in favor of his brother Alphonso. ... The Latin Patriarch of Constantinople was an office established as a result of Crusader activity in the Middle East. ... The Latin Patriarch of Antioch was an office established in the aftermath of the First Crusade by Bohemund, the first Prince of Antioch. ... Aquileia (Friulian Aquilee, Slovene Oglej), an ancient Roman town of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 6 miles from the sea, on the river Natiso (mod. ... Baldwin II (1217—1273) was the last emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. ... Only representation of Saint Louis known to be true to life - Early 14th century statue from the church of Mainneville, Eure, France King Louis IX of France or Saint Louis (April 25, 1214/1215 – August 25, 1270) was King of France from 1226 until his death. ... After the Visigothic Kings of Aquitaine (409-508), the Merovingian kings were kings and dukes in Aquitaine and dukes of Toulouse. ... The now-extinct title of Count of Provence belonged to local families of Frankish origin, to the House of Barcelona, to the House of Anjou and to a cadet branch of the House of Valois. ... Excommunication is religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ... The Holy Roman Empire and from the 16th century on also The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ... Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250. ... The Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France from 1248 to 1254. ... The term Saracen comes from Greek sarakenoi, which is itself derived from the Arabic word شرقيين sharqiyyin (easterners). The word was used in the early centuries of the Roman Empire to describe a nomadic Arab tribe from the Sinai Desert. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ...

At the opening, June 28, Innocent IV preached his famous sermon on the five wounds of the Church enumerated his personal five sorrows: (1) the bad conduct of prelates and faithful; (2) the insolence of the Saracens; (3) the Greek Schism; (4) the cruelties of the Tatars in Hungary; (5) the persecution by the Emperor Frederick, who, not unexpectedly, did not appear. June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ...

At the second session (July 5) the bishop of Calvi and a Spanish archbishop attacked the emperor's manner of life and his plots against the Church, at the third (July 17), though Baldwin II, Raymond VII, and Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia, interceded for Frederick, Innocent pronounced the deposition of Frederick, caused it to be signed by one hundred and fifty bishops and charged the Dominicans and Franciscans with its publication everywhere. But the pope lacked the material means to execute this decree; the Count of Savoy refused to allow an army sent by the pope against the emperor to pass through his territory, and for a time it was feared that Frederick would attack Innocent at Lyon. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ...

The Council of Lyon took several other purely religious measures; it obliged the Cistercians to pay tithes, approved the Rule of the Order of Grandmont, decided the institution of the octave of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, prescribed that henceforth cardinals should wear a red hat, and lastly prepared thirty-eight constitutions which were later inserted by Boniface VIII in his Decretals, the most important of which, received with protests by the envoys of the English clergy, decreed a levy of a twentieth on every benefice for three years for the relief of the Holy Land (Constitution "Afflicti corde") and a levy for the benefit of the Latin Empire of Constantinople of half the revenue of benefices whose titulars did not reside therein for at least six months of the year (Constitution "Arduis mens occupata negotiis").

The Second Council of Lyon was convened in 1274. Events May 7 - In France the Second Council of Lyons opens to consider the condition of the Holy Land and to agree to a union with the Byzantine church. ...

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• Catholic Encyclopedia: Lyon, First Council