a meeting of people for consultation | the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land |
a body serving in an administrative capacity | the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church |
(Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon |