Councils of Toledo
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Councils of Toledo (Concilia toletana). From the fifth to the seventh century, about thirty synods, variously counted, were held at Toledo in Spain. The earliest, directed against Priscillianism, assembled in 400. The "third" synod of 589 marked the epoch-making conversion of King Reccared from Arianism to Roman Catholicism. The "fourth," in 633, probably under the presidency of the noted Isidore of Seville, regulated many matters of discipline, decreed uniformity of liturgy throughout the kingdom and took stringent measures against baptized Jews who had relapsed into their former faith. The "twelfth" council in 681 assured to the archbishop of Toledo the primacy of Spain. As nearly one hundred early canons of Toledo found a place in the Decretum Gratiani, they exerted an important influence on the development of ecclesiastical law.
The later synod of 1565 and 1566 concerned itself with the execution of the decrees of Trent; and the last council of Toledo, that of 1582 and 1583, was so guided in detail by Philip II that the pope ordered the name of the royal commissioner to be expunged from the acts.
The seventh century is sometimes called, by Spanish historians, the Siglo de Concilios, or "Century of Councils".
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- Thompson, E. A. The Goths in Spain. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1969.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
