XV Council of Toledo

The XV Council of Toledo was a council of bishops of the Catholic Church of the Kingdom of the Visigoths, held in Toledo, the capital of the kingdom, in the year 688.

Celebration

It began in the Church of the Holy Apostles on May 11, 688. It was attended by sixty-six bishops (including the metropolitan bishops), eight abbots, three cathedral dignitaries, and twenty-six high palatine officials.

Issues discussed

The Council confirmed the theological position of Julián de Toledo on the subject known as “the two Wills” of Christ, to which seventeen canons were dedicated.

But the main reason for the Council was that King Égica had given his father-in-law an oath to defend the royal family and justice for the people, and he considered such a duty incompatible because it was necessary to restore the citizens from the usurpations of the previous monarch, for which he requested the release of the oath.

The bishops understood that the public good was above royal wishes, although they tried to protect Ervigio's family by declaring that guilt in the appropriation had to be proven to be punished and dispossessed.