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Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome. The properties were once owned by the Lateranus family of the former Roman Empire. The Laterani lost their properties to Emperor Constantine who in turn gave it to the Roman Catholic Church.
The most famous Lateran buildings are the Lateran Palace, once called the Palace of the Popes, and the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome, which although part of Italy is a property of the Holy See that has extra-territorial privileges as a result of the 1929 Lateran Treaties. As the official ecclesiastical seat of the Pope, St. John Lateran holds the Papal cathedra in its apse. The Lateran is Christendom's earliest basilica, and is located on one of the 7 hills of Rome, the Caelian.
The inscription at the base of the columns on either side of the central entrance door reads: SACROS LATERAN ECCLES OMNIUM URBIS ET ORBIS ECCLESIARUM MATER ET CAPUT. It translates to "Sacred Lateran Church Mother and Head of All Churches of the City and the World".
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If the Pope is head of the Vatican state, why do Italian taxpayers have to pay for his security? Part of the Lateran treaties? Or stitch-up?
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If the Pope is head of the Vatican state, why do Italian taxpayers have to pay for his security? Part of the Lateran treaties? Or stitch-up?
Fifth Lateran Council - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ Convoked, by the Bull of 18 July, 1511, to assemble 19 April, 1512, in the church of St. John Lateran ]
First Lateran Council - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ It put a stop to the arbitrary conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by laymen, reestablished freedom of episcopal and abbatial elections, separated spiritual from temporal affairs, and ratified the principle that spiritual authority can emanate only from the Church; lastly it tacitly abolished ... ]
Fourth Lateran Council - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ From the commencement of his reign Innocent III had purposed to assemble an ecumenical council, but only towards the end of his pontificate could he realize this project, by the Bull of 19 April, 1213. The assembly was to take place in November, 1215 ]
Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 : Canon on Heresy - From the Medieval Sourcebook.
Lateran Councils - A set of short essays from the BELIEVE Religious Information Source.
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Several articles on the Lateran Councils of the Catholic Church. A source
of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ]
Lateran Councils - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ A series of five important councils held at Rome from the twelfth to the sixteen century ]
Lateran III: On Papal Elections, 1179 - From the Medieval Sourcebook.
Lateran IV - The Twelfth Ecumenical Council held in 1215. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
Second Lateran Council - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ To efface the last vestiges of the schism, to condemn various errors and reform abuses among clergy and people Innocent, in the month of April, 1139, convoked, at the Lateran, the tenth ecumenical council ]
Third Lateran Council - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ In September, 1178, the pope in agreement with an article of the Peace of Venice, convoked an ecumenical council at the Lateran for Lent of the following year and, with that object, sent legates to different countries ]
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