Councils of Saragossa was a series of Christian councils held in Zaragoza

Zaragoza

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, in what is now Spain

Spain

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In or about 380 a council of Spanish

Spain

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 and Aquitanian

Aquitanian

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 bishop

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s adopted at Saragossa eight canon

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s bearing more or less directly on the prevalent heresy

Heresy

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 of Priscillianism

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. A second council, held in 592, solved practical problems incident to the recent conversion of the West Goths from Arianism

Arianism

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 to orthodox Christianity

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. The third council, in 691, issued five canons on discipline.

In 1318 a provincial synod

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 proclaimed the elevation of Zaragoza to the rank of an archbishopric; and from September 1565 to February 1566 a similar synod made known the decrees of the Council of Trent

Council of Trent

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