The Fifth Council of Paris was called by King Chlothar II one year after he became the sole ruler of the Frankish lands. On 10 October 614, it gathered twelve metropolitan bishops, sixty-three bishops (including the bishop of Rochester), and the abbot of Canterbury. Although it was one of the biggest of the Merovingian councils, its acts were preserved in only two canonical collections, and was surprisingly little cited by the later medieval compilators. Five days after the council, King Chlothar II issued an edict in which he repeated the synodal decrees, albeit using slightly different wording.