From all that can be learned up to the present moment, the only means of securing the peace of the world is by the assembling of a general council.
After him Rinaldo spoke, and in skilful words insisted upon the legality of Victor's claims, while he endeavored to prove that the present meeting was in reality a general council.
Barbarossa then convened a general council, in order to give a coloring of legality to his projects.
Frederick issued a manifesto addressed to all Princes, in which he appealed to a General Council.
The Pope signalised the close of the long schism of eighteen years by gathering in 1179 a General Council, distinguished as the Third Lateran Council, to which came nearly a thousand ecclesiastics from various parts of Christendom.
The Dictatus Papae declares that no General Council can be held without the papal command.
Luther himself had refused to come to Rome and submit to instruction; he had even appealed to a General Council, contrary to the decrees of Julius II.
This evil might have been cured with the greatest advantage to the Christian commonwealth, had not the Pope refused a General Council, had he preferred the public weal to his own private interests.
He wrote out an appeal from the Pope ill-informed to the Pope well-informed, also an appeal to a General Council, and returned to Wittenberg.
He laid stress on the unity of the Catholic (mediaeval) Church, on the continuity of its rites, and on the need of maintaining its authority; but the seat of that authority was for him a General Council.
This conduct did much to discredit the idea of a general councilin the eyes of Europe.
There was now nothing for the emperor to do but to outlaw Luther, who had denied the binding character of the commands of the head of the Church and of the highest Christian tribunal, a general council.
Sidenote: Idea of the supremacy of a general council.
Sidenote: Question whether the pope or a general council is the supreme authority in the Church.
The Cherokees West, meet in general council to consult on their affairs, and adopt some measures preparatory to the arrival of the eastern body of the nation.
The chiefs in general council assembled by special messengers at the Agency at Mackinack, this day assented to the Senate's alterations of the treaty.
The two nations of Upper and Lower Creeks, who were hostile while residing east of the Mississippi, have, in their new homes in Arkansas, united in general council, at which fifteen hundred were present.
He summoned a general council of officers; and immediately found, that they were disposed to receive whatever impressions he was pleased to give them.
Richard, who possessed neither resolution nor penetration, was prevailed on to give an unguarded consent for calling a general council of officers, who might make him proposals, as they pretended, for the good of the army.
They voted that there should be no meeting or general council of officers, except with the protector's consent, or by his orders.
Charles was engaged in repelling an invasion of the Turks, with an anarchical Germany in his rear, seething with fanatical anabaptists, and clamouring for a general council.
The above letter was read before a general council of the church, which had been assembled at Lyons by Pope Innocent IV.
On the 16th of October a general council of the church, which had been convened by the pope to pronounce the abolition of the order, assembled at Vienne near Lyons in France.
A general council of the church was opened at Lyons by the Pope in person; the two Grand Masters were present, and took precedence of all the ambassadors and peers at that famous assembly.
France--to summon a general council, depose the simoniacal usurper who was polluting the chair of Peter, and reform the Church.
The great thing done by the council of Constance was, that it declared a general council to be above the pope, and entitled to depose popes if the good of the Church should require it.
In order, therefore, to get this and some other matters settled, he gave orders for a general council to meet.
General Council of Lyons, in 1274, this was one of the evils to be remedied.
While admitting the primacy of the pope, he argued that a pope can fall into heresy, and so, indeed, can a general council, and even all Christendom.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general council" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
