Two such canons were restated by the 1917 Code of Canon Law as the principles "that there cannot be an ecumenical council which is not convoked by the Roman Pontiff" and that "the First See is under the judgment of nobody".
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.
They could not convoke anything worthwhile until the fifth inning, when Simmons singled and Jefry Marte walloped a fastball from Anibal Sanchez for a two-run home run.
In three elections last year, a constitutional assembly was first convoked and next selected and then finally it submitted a new charter to voters for approval last December.
A congress of Spartan allies was convoked to discuss grievances against Athens, and the decision was taken for war.
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 committee, chaired by forester Norm K. Johnson of Oregon State University in Corvallis, was convoked by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman in December 1997 to provide new guidelines for the Forest Service, a federal agency that has been at the center of a heated debate for decades.
When no agreement was reached, he convoked another meeting the following year at which the Poles, despite the opposition of the Archbishop of Gniezno and his followers, consented to recognize a daughter designated by Louis as successor to the throne.
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.
The second Lateran Council, the 10th ecumenical council (1139), was convoked by Pope Innocent II to condemn as schismatics the followers of Arnold of Brescia, a vigorous reformer and opponent of the temporal power of the pope, and to end the schism created by the election of Anacletus II, a rival pope.
