The Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church

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NOTE: The Second Vatican Council was a strictly pastoral council among several other Councils of the Church's history who were also strictly pastoral. What is interesting to Note is that All the Ecumenical Councils of the Most Holy Roman Catholic Church have either condemned a heresy, excommunicated a heretic, promulgated dogmatic canons, or defined infallible doctrines, except Vatican II. All Ecumenical Councils had and MUST have the OBJECTIVE point of view. Vatican II was the ONLY Council that had the subjective point of view.

To search "The Ecumenical Councils":
1) Double click on My Computer, double click on DOCTRINE, double click on the file "32exam" and follow the installation instructions.
2) Using Examine, search the directory "Ecumenical_Councils" on this CD for a word or phrase.
3) After the search results are returned, double click on any of the returned lines to open up the file at the location the search criteria was found at.

NOTE: Some good words to search for are "Anathema" which means condemnation or condemned, "anathematise", the substring "excommunicat" as a regular expression in Examine, "Heresy", "Heretical", and "Heretic", which will provide many incites into True Catholic Doctrine.

1st Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325)

2nd Council, The First Council of Constantinople (A.D. 381)

3rd Council, The Council of Ephesus (A.D. 431)

4th Council, The Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)

5th Council, Second Council of Constantinople (A.D. 553)

6th Council, The Third Council of Constantinople (A.D. 680-681)

7th Council, The Second Council of Nicaea (A.D. 787)

8th Council, Constantinople IV (A.D. 869-870)

9th Council, Lateran I (A.D 1123)

10th Council, Lateran II (A.D. 1139)

11th Council, Third Lateran Council (A.D. 1179)

12th Council, Lateran IV (A.D. 1215)