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COUNCILS OF SARAGOSSA (Concilia Caesarauguslana)
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SARAGOSSA, COUNCILS OF (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. R.*)