Editing Ecumenical council (section)

===Further councils recognised as ecumenical in the Catholic Church===
As late as the 11th century, seven councils were recognised as ecumenical in the Catholic Church.<ref name=Dvornik>[http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=14:articles&id=22:which-councils-are-ecumenical Francis Dvornik, "Which Councils are Ecumenical?" Journal of Ecumenical Studies 3(2), 1966, pp. 314–328] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728181456/http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=14:articles&id=22:which-councils-are-ecumenical |date=28 July 2011 }}. Orthodoxchristianity.net (10 December 2006).</ref> Then, in the time of [[Pope Gregory VII]] (1073–1085), canonists who in the [[Investiture Controversy]] quoted the prohibition in canon 22 of the Council of Constantinople of 869–870 against laymen influencing the appointment of prelates elevated this council to the rank of ecumenical council.<ref name=Dvornik/> {{unreliable source?|date=May 2015}} Only in the 16th century was recognition as ecumenical granted by Catholic scholars to the Councils of the Lateran, of Lyon and those that followed.<ref name=Dvornik/> The following is a list of further councils generally recognised as ecumenical by Catholic theologians:<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rTz3HmuaEEC&pg=PA241 |first=Norman |last=Tanner |title=New Short History of the Catholic Church |publisher=A&C Black |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-44116212-0 |page=242}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxEONS0FFlsC&pg=PA193 |first=Frank K. |last=Flinn |title=Encyclopedia of Catholicism |publisher=Infobase Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-81607565-2 |pages=193–197}}</ref>

# <li value="8"> [[Fourth Council of Constantinople (Catholic Church)|Fourth Council of Constantinople (Catholic)]] (869–870) deposed Patriarch [[Photios I of Constantinople]] as a usurper and reinstated his predecessor [[Ignatios of Constantinople|Saint Ignatius]], thus ending the [[Photian schism]]. Photius had already been declared deposed by the Pope, an act to which the See of Constantinople acquiesced at this council.</li>
# [[First Council of the Lateran]] (1123) addressed [[Investiture Controversy|investment of bishops]] and the [[Holy Roman Emperor]]'s role therein.
# [[Second Council of the Lateran]] (1139) reaffirmed [[First Council of the Lateran|Lateran I]] and addressed clerical discipline ([[clerical celibacy]], [[Clerical dress|dress]]).
# [[Third Council of the Lateran]] (1179) restricted papal election to the [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinals]], condemned [[simony]], and introduced minimum ages for ordination (thirty for bishops).
# [[Fourth Council of the Lateran]] (1215) defined [[transubstantiation]], addressed [[papal primacy]] and clerical discipline.
# [[First Council of Lyon]] (1245) proclaimed the deposition of [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Frederick II]] and instituted a levy to support the Holy Land.
# [[Second Council of Lyon]] (1274) attempted reunion with the Eastern churches, defined teaching on [[purgatory]], approved [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] and [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[Mendicant orders|orders]], a tithe to support crusades, and [[Papal conclave|conclave]] procedures.
# [[Council of Vienne]] (1311–1312) disbanded the [[Knights Templar]].
#*[[Council of Pisa]] (1409) attempted to solve the Great [[Western Schism]].<br>''The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a [[pope]] and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.''
# [[Council of Constance]] (1414–1418) resolved the [[Western Schism|Great Western Schism]] and condemned [[Jan Hus|John Hus]].<br>''The Catholic Church declared invalid the first sessions of the Council of Constance, gathered under the authority of [[Antipope John XXIII]], which included the famous decree ''[[Haec sancta|Haec Sancta Synodus]]'', which marked the high-water mark of the conciliar movement of reform.'' Decrees of the council later annulled by [[Pope Sixtus IV]].
#*[[Council of Siena]] (1423–1424) addressed church reform.<br>Not numbered as it was swiftly disbanded.
# [[Council of Florence|Council of Basel, Ferrara and Florence]] (1431–1445) addressed church reform and reunion with the Eastern Churches but split into two parties. The fathers remaining at Basel became the apogee of [[conciliarism]]. The fathers at Florence achieved union with [[Eastern Catholic Churches|various Eastern Churches]] and temporarily with the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].
# [[Fifth Council of the Lateran]] (1512–1517) addressed church reform.
# [[Council of Trent]] (1545–1563, with interruptions) addressed church reform and repudiated Protestantism, defined the role and [[Biblical canon|canon]] of Scripture and the [[Sacraments of the Catholic Church|seven sacraments]], and strengthened clerical discipline and education. Considered the founding event of the [[Counter-Reformation]].<br>''Temporarily attended by Lutheran delegates.''
# [[First Vatican Council|First Council of the Vatican]] (1869–1870) defined the [[Papal primacy|Pope's primacy in church governance]] and [[papal infallibility|his infallibility]], repudiated [[rationalism]], [[materialism]] and [[atheism]], addressed [[revelation]], [[exegesis|interpretation of scripture]] and the relationship of [[faith]] and [[reason]].
# [[Second Vatican Council|Second Council of the Vatican]] (1962–1965) addressed pastoral and disciplinary issues dealing with the Church and its relation to the modern world, including [[Catholic liturgy|liturgy]] and [[ecumenism]].