It condemned the charismatic mystic preacher Aldebert and ordered his arrest, appointed St Abel bishop of Reims, and published 10 canons: recognizing the Nicene Creed (1); forbidding fornication and perjury to laity and ordering all priests to submit to their bishop, to receive him as needed, to obtain the holy rite and chrism from him, and to render an annual account of their conduct (4); forbidding the reception of foreign clerics (5); directing bishops to extirpate paganism (6); ordering Adelbert's crosses removed and burned (7); forbidding clerics from housing women other than their mothers, sisters, and nieces (8); forbidding laity from housing nuns or from marrying another man's wife before his death.
Held in St Medard Abbey, this council was attended by 26[1] or 52[citation needed] bishops and King Charles the Bald and presided over by Hincmar, archbishop of Reims.
Ordered by King Charles the Bald, this council was attended by 35 bishops including Wenilo, archbishop of Rouen.
It condemned the teaching of Peter Abelard as Sabellianism without offering him a chance to speak in his defense and compelled him to burn a copy of his Theologia Summi Boni ("Theology of the Greatest Good").
[1][3] Abelard subsequently argued in his Historia Calamitatum ("A History of My Misfortunes") that he had been attempting to uphold orthodoxy against both Sabellianism and Roscelin's tritheism.