The councils of Saragossa (Latin: ''Concilia Caesaraugustana'') were a series of Christian councils held in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, in what is now

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. In or about 380 a council of Spanish and Aquitanian

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s adopted at Saragossa eight canons bearing more or less directly on the prevalent

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. A second council, held by

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in 592, solved practical problems incident to the recent conversion of the West Goths from

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. The third council, in 691, issued five canons on discipline. In 1318 a provincial

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proclaimed the elevation of Zaragoza to the rank of an

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; and from September 1565 to February 1566 a similar synod made known the decrees of the

Council of Trent The Council of Trent ( la, Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento, Trent (or Trento), now in northern Italian Peninsula, Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation ...

References

* H. T. Bruns, ''Canones apostolorum et conciliorum saeculorum'' iv., v., vi., vii., pars altera (Berlin, 1839) * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien'' (Regensburg, 1862-1879). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saragossa 380 380s in the Roman Empire 4th century in Hispania 592 6th century in the Visigothic Kingdom 691 7th century in the Visigothic Kingdom 1565 in Christianity 1565 in Spain 1566 in Christianity 1566 in Spain Catholic Church councils held in Spain 4th-century church councils 6th-century church councils 7th-century church councils 14th-century Catholic Church councils 16th-century Catholic Church councils

Councils A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or nati ...

Ancient Christian controversies Priscillianism Spain in the Roman era