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TOLEDO, COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1052 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOLEDO, See also:COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana) . From the 5th to the 16th See also:century about See also:thirty synods, variously counted, were held at Toledo in See also:Spain. The earliest, directed against Priscillianism, assembled in 400. The " third " See also:synod of 589 marked the See also:epoch-making See also:conversion of See also:King Reccared from Arianism to See also:Roman Catholicism. The " See also:fourth," in 633, probably under the See also:presidency of the noted Isidore of See also:Seville, regulated many matters of discipline, decreed uniformity of See also:liturgy throughout the See also:kingdom and took stringent See also:measures against baptized See also:Jews who had relapsed into their former faith. The " twelfth " See also:council in 681 assured to the See also:archbishop of Toledo the primacy of Spain. As nearly one See also:hundred See also:early canons of Toledo found a See also:place in the Decretum Gratiani, they exerted an important See also:influence on the development of ecclesiastical See also:law. The synod of 1565 and 1566 concerned itself with the See also:execution of the decrees of See also:Trent; and the last council of Toledo, that of 1582 and 1583, was so guided in detail by See also:Philip II. that the See also:pope ordered the name of the royal See also:commissioner to be expunged from the acts. See Canones apostolorum it conciliorum saeculorum, iv., v., vi., vii., rec. H. T. Bruns, pars See also:prior (See also:Berlin, 1839), See also:critical See also:text of seventeen councils of Toledo (A.D.

400–694) ; P. B. Gams, See also:

Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien (See also:Regensburg, 1862–1879) ; E. H. See also:Landon, A See also:Manual of the Councils of the See also:Holy See also:Catholic See also:Church, revised ed. (See also:London, 1893), 151–169. These two summarize the See also:chief canons. Neher, in Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexicon (1855–1857), vol. xi. (2nd ed. See also:Freiburg, 1899), gives a See also:list of 29 synods. (W. W.

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