Second Council of the Lateran

Second Council of the Lateran
Second Council of the Lateran
Date	1139
Accepted by	Catholic Church
Previous council	First Council of the Lateran
Next council	Third Council of the Lateran
Convoked by	Pope Innocent II
President	Pope Innocent II
Attendance	1000
Topics	schism of Antipope Anacletus II
Documents and statements	thirty canons, mostly repeating those of the First Lateran Council, clerical marriage declared invalid, clerical dress regulated, attacks on clerics punished by excommunication
	Chronological list of ecumenical councils

The Second Council of the Lateran was the tenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church. It was convened by Pope Innocent II in April 1139 and attended by close to a thousand clerics. Its immediate task was to neutralise the after-effects of the schism which had arisen after the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130 and the papal election that year that established Pietro Pierleoni as the antipope Anacletus II.^[1]

^ Reich, Herb (2011). Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 512. ISBN 978-1616080846.

[1] Reich, Herb (2011). Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 512. ISBN 978-1616080846.

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