Editing Fourth Council of the Lateran (section)

==Legacy==
[[Henry of Segusio]] likened the council to the "four great councils of antiquity".{{Sfn|Helmrath|2015|p=24}} Lateran IV is sometimes referred to as the "Great Council of the Lateran" due to the presence of 404 or 412 [[bishop]]s (including 71 [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]]s and [[archbishop]]s) and over 800 [[abbot]]s and [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|prior]]s representing some eighty [[ecclesiastical province]]s,{{Sfn|Duggan|2008|p=343}}{{Sfn|Helmrath|2015|pp=26–27}} together with 23 Latin-speaking [[prelate]]s from the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]{{Sfn|Helmrath|2015|p=24}} and representatives of several [[monarch]]s, including Frederick II, [[Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto IV]], the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, [[John, King of England]], [[Andrew II of Hungary]], [[Philip II of France]], and the kings of Aragon, Cyprus, and Jerusalem.{{Sfn|Helmrath|2015|p=24}} This made it the largest ecumenical council between the [[Council of Chalcedon]] and the [[Second Vatican Council]];{{Sfn|Helmrath|2015|p=17}} Anne J. Duggan writes that "it was the largest, most representative, and most influential council assembled under papal leadership before the end of the fourteenth century."{{Sfn|Duggan|2008|p=341}} According to [[F. Donald Logan]], "the Fourth Lateran Council was the most important general council of the church in the Middle Ages",{{Sfn|Logan|2012|p=193}} whose effects "were felt for centuries."{{Sfn|Logan|2012|p=201}}