14th Ecumenical Council (Catholic reckoning) · Lyons · A.D. 1274
The fourteenth ecumenical council: it achieved a short-lived reunion with the Greek Church, regulated papal elections by the constitution on conclaves, and issued constitutions of reform.
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 Constitutions — The constitutions of the council in two parts, including the profession of faith of the Greeks and the decree on conclaves.