First Council of Lugo

The Council of Lugo was a Catholic synod called by the Suevic king Theodemir in 569 in order to increase the number of dioceses within his kingdom.

[1] The extant record for the council is known as the Parochiale Suevorum;[2] it is not the minutes or the canons agreed upon in the council, but a list of the new dioceses along with an introduction to the document.

There is a question as to whether or not this document is authentic: certain earlier historians have declared the entire document to be spurious,[3] while some more recent scholars have accepted the full document, since many of the new dioceses are represented in the Second Council of Braga of 572.

[4] It has also been proposed that the list of dioceses is correct, but that the introduction was added at a later date – some manuscripts even list the king who called the council as Miro, Theodemir's successor.

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