A succinct, up-to-date and chronological history of the 21 general councils, along with their major tasks, achievements and failures and their impact on their t

Specially commissioned for this series shortly after the announcement by Pope John XXIII of a forthcoming General Council of the Church, Father Dvornik's histor

There have been twenty-one universal gatherings 'ecumenical councils' of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of