Council of Benevento explained

The Council of Benevento may mean one of a number of Councils, or more accurately in some cases synods, of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Victor III condemned lay investiture.[1]

Pope Urban II held councils at Melfi (1089), Benevento and Troia (1093).[2]

Notes

  1. Here Gregorian decrees against simony and lay investiture were restated, and likewise the excommunication of the 'heresiarch' Wibert of Ravenna, I. S. Robinson, The Papacy 1073-1198 (1990), p.414.
  2. … by which the reform papacy eventually regained the obedience of western Christendom. Robinson, p. 374.