COUNCILS OF

See also:

• SARAGOSSA (Zaragoza)
• COUNCILS OF SARAGOSSA (Concilia Caesarauguslana)

SARAGOSSA (Concilia Caesarauguslana)  . In or about 38o a council of Spanish and Aquitanian bishops adopted at Saragossa eight canons bearing more or less directly on the prevalent heresy of Priscillianism . A second council, held in 592, solved practical problems incident to the recent conversion of the West Goths from Arianism to orthodox Christianity . The third council, in 691, issued five canonson discipline . In 1318 a provincial synod proclaimed the elevation of Saragossa to the rank of an archbishopric; and from September 1565 to February 1566 a similar synod made known the decrees of Trent . H . T . Bruns, Canones apostolorum et conciliorum saeculorum iv., v., vi., vii., pars altera (Berlin, 1839) ; P . B . Gams, Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien (Regensburg, 1862-1879) . (W . W .