Innocent IIApril 1139
Many of the canons relating to these matters were mostly a restating of the decrees of the Council of Reims and the Council of Clermont
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Many of the canons relating to these matters were mostly a restating of the decrees of the Council of Reims and the Council of Clermont
The council also condemned the teachings of the Petrobrusians and the Henricians, the followers of Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne. Finally, the council drew up measures for the amendment of ecclesiastical morals and discipline which the council fathers considered had grown lax.
The immediate task was to neutralise the after-effects of the schism which had arisen after the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130 and the papal election in the same year that set up Petris Leonis as the antipope Anacletus II.
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