11th Ecumenical Council (Catholic reckoning) · Rome · A.D. 1179
The eleventh ecumenical council: it ended the schism of the antipopes, required a two-thirds majority of cardinals for a valid papal election, and issued twenty-seven canons.
Translated by Norman P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (Georgetown University Press, 1990). Source: papalencyclicals.net. This modern critical translation is under copyright and is reproduced here from papalencyclicals.net, which has hosted it freely for many years. Tanner’s critical-apparatus footnotes are omitted; his introductions and the full conciliar text are retained.
Documents
- The Canons — The twenty-seven canons of the council, with Tanner’s introduction.