Council of Vienne

Under pressure from King Philip IV of France, the pope suppressed the Order of the Temple (bull Vox in excelso, 1312). The council defined that the rational soul is of itself the form of the body, condemned errors attributed to Beghards and Beguines, and called for chairs of Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac at the universities.

Convoked by

Pope Clement V

Catholic Church only (fifteenth ecumenical council in its numbering).