EMPEROR: Rudolph I of Hapsburg, 1273 - 1291

[nusaibatara]

LOCATION: Lyons, France
YEAR: 1274
POPE: Blessed Gregory X, 1271 - 1276

ACTION: Called and ratified by Pope Gregory X, this council declared the country email list double procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son: "Qui ex Patre Filioque procedit." The return of the Eastern Church to union with Rome, sought by the popes, failed utterly.

NOTE: St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church (d. 1274), died on his way to Lyons II. St. Bonaventure, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church (d.1274), was prominent at Lyons II, died there, and was buried by the council. FILIOQUE DEFINED and added to Nicene Creed.