The Lateran councils were ecclesiastical councils or synods of the Catholic Church held at Rome in the Lateran Palace next to the Lateran Basilica. Ranking as a papal cathedral, this became a much-favored place of assembly for ecclesiastical councils both in antiquity (313, 487) and more especially during the Middle Ages. [1]
Among these numerous synods the most prominent are five which the tradition of the Catholic Church has classed as ecumenical councils: [1]
A number of non-ecumenical councils were held at the Lateran, including the Lateran Council of 649 against Monothelitism, [2] the Lateran Council of 769 against iconoclasm, and the Lateran Council of 964.