15th Ecumenical Council (Catholic reckoning) · Vienne · A.D. 1311–1312
The fifteenth ecumenical council: it suppressed the Order of the Temple, condemned the errors of the Beguines and Beghards, and issued the decrees later gathered as the Clementine Constitutions.
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
- Decrees, Part 1 — Tanner’s introduction and the papal bulls of the council, including the suppression of the Templars.
- Decrees, Part 2 — The numbered decrees (the Clementine constitutions), part 1.
- Decrees, Part 3 — The numbered decrees (the Clementine constitutions), part 2, with the concluding decrees.