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Events

• The Lateran Council under Pope Innocent III decreed the establishment of the chair of sacred Letters, described by Lapide as renewing and confirming an ancient custom rather than instituting something new

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — Lateran Council decree on the chair of sacred Letters

  "Therefore what was decreed at the Lateran Council under Innocent III concerning the chair of sacred Letters is to be regarded not as a new decree, but as one renewing and confirming an ancient custom."