The adoption of certain episcopal insignia ( pontificalia ) by abbots was followed by an encroachment on episcopal functions, which had to be specially but ineffectually guarded against by the Lateran council, AD 1123.

This permission opening the door to luxurious living, the council of Aachen, AD 817, decreed that the abbot should dine in the refectory, and be content with the ordinary fare of the monks, unless he had to entertain a guest.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade ( there is evidence Urban II had conferred with Adhemar before the council ) and having been named apostolic legate and appointed to lead the crusade by Pope Urban II, he accompanied Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, to the east.

The following year he convened a council at Alexandria at which he appealed for unity among all those who had faith in Christianity, even if they differed on matters of terminology.

The earliest organization of the Church in Jerusalem was according to most scholars similar to that of Jewish synagogues, but it had a council or college of ordained presbyters ( elders, priests ).

After they had returned to Antioch from the Jerusalem council and after spending some time there ( 15: 35 ), Paul asked Barnabas to accompany him on another journey ( 15: 36 ).

Until the council of Trent every bishop had full power to regulate the Breviary of his own diocese ; and this was acted upon almost everywhere.

Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 49 ), seeing that the Protestant Reformation was no longer confined to a few preachers, but had won over various princes, particularly in Germany, to its ideas, desired a council.

The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.

Until the formation of a national council in 1961, supporters and local groups had no formal voice in the national organisation, which until then had been led by the self-appointed executive committee.

In 1990, it was discovered in the archive of the Stasi ( the state security service of the former German Democratic Republic ) that a member of CND's governing council, Vic Allen, had passed information to them about CND.

Dioscorus began the council by banning all members of the November 447 synod which had deposed Eutyches.

Paschasinus refused to give Dioscorus ( who had excommunicated Leo leading up to the council ) a seat at the council.

The council fathers, however, felt that no new creed was necessary, and that the doctrine had been laid out clearly in Leo's Tome.

In making their case, the council fathers argued that tradition had accorded " honor " to the see of older Rome because it was the first imperial city.

After thirty years of schism, the Council of Pisa had sought to resolve the situation by deposing the two claimant popes and elected a new pope, Alexander V. The council claimed that in such a situation, a council of bishops had greater authority than just one bishop, even if he were the bishop of Rome.

The position of decurion, member of the city council, had been an honor sought by wealthy aristocrats and the middle classes who displayed their wealth by paying for city amenities and public works.

He was promoted to Rear-Admiral on 1 January 1910 by a special order in council since he had not completed the requisite time as a captain.

Photius had already been declared deposed by the Pope, an act which the Church of Constantinople accepted at this council.

The turtle immediately withdrew into its private council room to study the phenomenon.

In all probability, the council will screen and endorse candidates for the Assembly and for Congress, and then strive to put its full weight behind these pre-primary favorites.

He explained that by law the council must establish procedures for a vote on the issue within 60 days after the board of canvassers completes its work.

The council agreed it should more firmly state its belief in and dependence on the Bible.

Gregory agreed and John initially did as well, but then he fled the council, hoping that without him it would lose its authority.

The municipalities merged in the course of the latest municipal reform of the 1970s are also called Stadtbezirke ( quarters or districts ), and are Ortschaften (“ settlements ”) in terms of Baden-Württemberg ’ s Gemeindeordnung ( municipal code ), which means, each of them has its own council elected by its respective residents ( Ortschaftsrat ) and is presided by a spokesperson ( Ortsvorsteher ).

In 1517 he was a member of the " Ausseren Rates ", the council on external affairs, and in this capacity was involved in the expulsion of the Jews, the destruction of the synagogue and in its place the construction of a church and shrine to the Schöne Maria that occurred in 1519.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

On Jan. 1 2008 Costa Rica started its third year term on the Security council.

President Scherer, hearing of the formation of the council, immediately offered to take part in its work, and with this object, he secured within three days an additional research endowment of one hundred thousand dollars.

In particular this includes setting the agenda of the council, hence giving the Presidency substantial influence in the work of the Council during its term.

The council was reconvened by Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 65 ) for the last time, meeting from 18 January 1562, and continued until its final adjournment on 4 December 1563.

The original acts and debates of the council, as prepared by its general secretary, Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita ( 2 vols., Leipzig, 1874 ).

The village, which has its own parish council, has a population of 5, 093 and the parish has an acreage of as of 1961.

In recent times, its teaching has been most notably expressed in the Vatican II council documents Unitatis Redintegratio ( 1964 ), Lumen Gentium ( 1964 ), Nostra aetate ( 1965 ), an encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II: Ut Unum Sint ( 1995 ), and in a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus in 2000.

The cardinal then read a decree of Gregory XII which convoked the council and authorized its succeeding acts.

Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence.

In its place he established an effectively autocratic structure, a shift later epitomized in the institution's name: it would be called a consistorium (" consistory "), not a council.

The council is intended to be transitional, surrendering its state powers to the president following the election in May.

Although its decisions are accepted by all Christians, and still observed in full by the Greek Orthodox, and later definitions of an ecumenical council appear to conform to this sole biblical Council, no Christian church calls it a mere ecumenical council, instead it is called the " Apostolic Council " or " Council of Jerusalem ".

** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.

The remaining church at large – clergy, monks and assembly of believers – accepted the council in spite of its failure to heal the rift of the Great Schism.