Second Council of the Lateran

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{{Ecumenical council |council_name=Second Council of the Lateran |council_date=1139 |accepted_by=Catholicism |previous=First Council of the Lateran |next=Third Council of the Lateran |convoked_by=Pope Innocent II |presided_by=Pope Innocent II |attendance=1000 |topics=schism of Antipope Anacletus II |documents=thirty canons, mostly repeating those of the First Lateran Council, clerical marriage declared invalid, clerical dress regulated, attacks on clerics punished by excommunication }} The second Lateran, and tenth ecumenical council was held by Pope Innocent II in April 1139, and was attended by close to a thousand clerics.

Its immediate task was to neutralize the after-effects of the schism, which had only been terminated in the previous year by the death of Antipope Anacletus II (d. January 25 1138). All consecrations received at his hands were declared invalid, his adherents were deposed, and King Roger II of Sicily was excommunicated. Arnold of Brescia, too, was removed from office and banished from Italy.

The council was also significant for its outlawing the use of crossbows in wars between Christians. This was arguably the first international law against inhumane conduct.

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