Sentence examples for convoked by from inspiring English sources

In 1139 the second Lateran Council convoked by Innocent ended the schism, though opinion remained divided.

Officially convoked by the Austrian foreign minister, Count Gyula Andrassy, the congress met in Berlin on June 13.

The Council (1130) of Étampes, France, convoked by King Louis VI the Fat to decide the legitimacy of the papal succession, chose Innocent.

Convoked by the patriarch Tarasius, the council was attended by delegates of Pope Adrian I, and the pope confirmed the decrees of the council.

The Council of Clermont convoked by Urban on November 18 , 1095 was attended largely by bishops of southern France as well as a few representatives from northern France and elsewhere.

The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512 17), was convoked by Pope Julius II in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the Pope.

The council was convoked not by an ecclesiastical authority but by the Roman emperor Constantine, who wanted the church to reach a final decision on the Arian controversy.

A general assembly of the Transylvanian nobles, Saxons, Székelys and Romanians was convoked personally by the monarch in 1291.

The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized.

It was the site of the first Mexican congress, convoked in 1813 by José María Morelos y Pavón.

For instance, the general assembly convoked in 1279 by Ladislaus IV for seven counties – among them Bihor, Crasna, Sătmar, and Zărand in the territory what is now Romania – ended with sentencing a despotic person to death.