13th Ecumenical Council (Catholic reckoning) · Lyons · A.D. 1245
The thirteenth ecumenical council: it deposed the excommunicated emperor Frederick II and enacted constitutions on ecclesiastical procedure and aid for the Holy Land and the Latin empire.
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
- Deposition of Frederick II — Tanner’s introduction and the bull deposing the emperor Frederick II.
- The Constitutions — The constitutions of the council.