council · 441
The first council of Orange (441), under Hilary of Arles, legislated for the Gallic churches on penance, sanctuary and order — the tradition of provincial councils that would culminate, on the question of grace, at Orange's second council in 529.
The First Council of Orange was held in the diocese of Orange, then part of the Western Roman Empire, in 441. The meeting took place in a church called the ecclesia Justinianensis, under the presidency of Bishop Hilary of Arles. Seventeen bishops attended the meeting, among them Bishop Eucherius of Lyons.
Order and discipline for the churches of southern Gaul.
Canons on grace, penance and church order — a waypoint of the Gallic church between Augustine and Orange 529.