Its definitions and decrees were confirmed by a papal bull (" Benedictus Deus ") dated 26 January 1564 ; and, though they were received with certain limitations by France and Spain, the famous Creed of Pius IV, or Tridentine Creed, became an authoritative expression of the Catholic faith.

These decrees, and others made by preceding Popes, were confirmed by Pope Clement XI ( 1700 – 21 ) in 1704.

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

It solemnly confirmed the Concordat and passed several disciplinary decrees, such as those against simony and concubinage among the clergy.

The three hundred Western bishops who remained, confirmed the previous decisions of the Roman synod ; and by its 3rd, 4th, and 5th decrees relating to the rights of revision claimed by Julius, the council of Sardica perceptibly helped forward the claims of the Bishop of Rome.

After Leo had notified the Emperor that the decrees of the council had been confirmed, he made them known to the nations of the West.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

22, 2, to decide whether, and to what extent, the vernacular language is to be used ; their decrees are to be approved, that is, confirmed, by the Apostolic See.

The patriarch John, having meanwhile gained time for thought and consultation, came out and mounted the pulpit, saying, " There is no need of disturbance or tumult ; nothing has been done against the faith ; we recognize for orthodox all the councils which have confirmed the decrees of Nicaea, and principally these three-Constantinople, Ephesus, and the great council of Chalcedon ".

The decrees of the synod were sent to Rome for John ’ s confirmation, who confirmed them all except for the ruling which placed the Croatian Bishop of Nona under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Spalatro.

Subsequently in the 1990s, “ reports in the BMJ drew attention to a series of decrees of the RCC introducing amputation of the right hand as judicial punishment for theft, with amputation of the left foot for a second offence, amputation of one ear for evasion of the draft, military desertion, or harbouring deserters .” Amnesty International received reports that confirmed the governmental judicial acts of amputation.

Following World War I and the fall of many royal houses, there were fewer regulatory authorities to authenticate use of titles, however the Almanach de Gotha continued the practice of strict verification of information, requesting certified copies of letters patent, genealogies confirmed by competent authorities, documents, decrees and references for titles claimed.

* The 1st confirmed the decrees of previous councils of the Catholic Church and synodical letters of the popes ;

The decrees of general councils need not be confirmed by the pope nor can they be altered by him ; on the other hand, appeal may be made from papal decisions to a general council.

( 13 ) Also confirmed, was the multilingual aspect of the Union, specifying that all of the Union's decrees are to printed in the official language of each constituent republic ( Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Georgian, Armenian and Turkic ( i. e. Azerbaijani )) ( 14 ).

The decrees were confirmed on January 26, 1564, by Pius IV in the Bull " Benedictus Deus ".

On 20 September 2007, the Slovak parliament adopted a resolution proposed by Ján Slota, the chairman of the ultra-nationalist Slovak National Party, that confirmed the decrees.

After his coronation, he confirmed King Stephen's decrees and invited foreign priests to Hungary, because the pagan rebels had murdered several members of the Christian clergy.

Pope Leo I, whose delegates were absent when this resolution was passed and who protested against it, recognized the council as ecumenical and confirmed its doctrinal decrees, but rejected canon 28 on the ground that it contravened the sixth canon of Nicaea and infringed the rights of Alexandria and Antioch.

This council confirmed the decision of the earlier Roman synod, and clearly indicated that the participants saw St Athanasius as the lawful Patriarch of Alexandria.

However, fearing that withholding Rome's approval would be interpreted as a rejection of the entire council, in 453 the pope confirmed the council ’ s canons with a protest against the 28th.

It holds that " there never is an ecumenical council which is not confirmed or at least recognized as such by Peter's successor ".

The council confirmed the Nicene Creed and dealt with other matters such as the Arian controversy as it met in the church of Hagia Irene from May to July 381.

Whether and how far the council was confirmed by Pope John VIII is also a matter of dispute: The council was held in the presence of papal legates, who approved of the proceedings, Roman Catholic historian Fr.

A second was addressed to the nobles and people of Germany, urging them to obey Boniface, while a third to the bishops in Alamannia and Bavaria confirmed Boniface ’ s status as the papal vicarus, and ordered them to assemble in a council twice a year at Augsburg under Boniface ’ s authority.

One doctrine that confirmed the “ power over the spirit ” theory was the implementation by the council mandating that Jews wear special identifying markings on their clothing – a sign of the increased hostility felt by Christians towards Jews in the region.

According to the Vita Lebuini antiqua, an important source for early Saxon history, the Saxons held an annual council at Marklo where they " confirmed their laws, gave judgment on outstanding cases, and determined by common counsel whether they would go to war or be in peace that year.

* Pope Stephen III holds a council ; papal election procedure is changed and the devotion to icons is confirmed.

In the same year Gregory summoned a council in the Lateran palace, which condemned simony and confirmed celibacy for the Church's clergy.

Ivan revised the law code ( known as the sudebnik ), created a standing army ( the streltsy ), established the Zemsky Sobor or assembly of the land, a public, consensus-building assembly, the council of the nobles ( known as the Chosen Council ), and confirmed the position of the Church with the Council of the Hundred Chapters, which unified the rituals and ecclesiastical regulations of the entire country.

In 2001 a referendum confirmed the proposal of the city council to expand the built-up area into the Usseler Es, an area of historic cultural significance and of geological importance, as it was here that the Usselo horizon was discovered.

Members of those commissions are recommended by the mayor and confirmed by a majority of the council.

In 1135, Innocent II held a council at Pisa, which confirmed his authority and condemned Anacletus.

After the merger with the municipalities of Werchter and Wezemaal, the coat of arms was confirmed by the municipal council and 1981 and ratified in 1982.

Yet the very council which had deposed him confirmed all his reforms and anathematized all who should refuse to accept them, like protopope Avvakum.

Though the federal council was always only elected by the Federal Assembly, there was an unwritten rule at the time, relinquished since the 1870s, that federal councillors should be confirmed in their home canton ’ s election for the National Council as well.

The council confirmed the status of Mary as Theotokos, or Mother of God, reinforced the use of the terms " saint " and " holy " as meet, and condemned the desecration, burning, or looting of churches in the quest to quench Iconophiles.

Within a year or two ( the date is uncertain ) he assembled a council, in which he confirmed in writing the acts of the Council of Chalcedon.

However, Trent confirmed the statements of earlier and less authoritative regional councils which included also the deuterocanonical books, such as the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ), and the Councils of Carthage of 397.

Shortly after, Hannibal destroyed the city walls, but gave permission to the surviving inhabitants to return and occupy it as tributaries of Carthage, an arrangement confirmed by the treaty subsequently concluded between Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, and the Carthaginians, in 405 BCE.

The Book of Tobit ( Book of Tobias in the Vulgate ; from the Greek: τωβιθ, and Hebrew: טובי Tobi " my good ", also called the Book of Tobias from the Hebrew טוביה Tobiah " Yahweh is my good ") is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent ( 1546 ).

The Canons of the Council of Carthage were later confirmed by the Quinisext Council, which makes the book a part of the Orthodox Bible ; while in the West, the book's canonicity was later ratified at the Council of Trent.