The Council of Bourges was a Catholic council convened in November 1225[1] in Bourges, France; it was the second largest church assembly held in the West up to that time, exceeded in the numbers of prelates that attended only by the Fourth Lateran Council.[citation needed] Summoned by the cardinal-legate Romanus Bonaventura, it was attended by 112 archbishops and bishops, more than 500 abbots, many deans and archdeacons, and over 100 representatives of cathedral chapters.
- ^ A previous Council of Bourges (1031) had affirmed clerical celibacy, requiring married priests to put aside their wives; purely provincial councils of Bourges were convened in 1276, presided over by the Papal legate, Simon de Brie, and in 1280.