lyons

Noun

• the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land

• the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church

• a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Lyons , First Council of Lyons , Second Council of Lyons , Lyon