Vatican Council

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• Vatican Council — • The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vatican Council     Vatican Council …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Vatican Council — Vatican Coun|cil, the either of two important series of meetings in the Roman Catholic Church, in which leading members of the church discussed questions of belief and practice. The First Vatican Council (1869 70) developed the idea that the Pope …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Vatican Council — Vat i*can Coun cil (R. C. Ch.) The council held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Vatican Council — /vætɪkən ˈkaʊnsəl/ (say vatikuhn kownsuhl) noun 1. Also, Vatican I. First Vatican Council, the 20th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church, held in Rome in 1869–70, best known for its decree affirming the doctrine of papal infallibility …   Australian English dictionary

• Vatican Council — noun each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church • Hypernyms: ↑council • Hyponyms: ↑First Vatican Council, ↑Vatican I, ↑Second Vatican Council, ↑Vatican II …   Useful english dictionary

• VATICAN COUNCIL —    the First Vatican Council which was highly CONSERVATIVE and emphasized differences between ROMAN CATHOLICISM and PROTESTANT CHURCHES was held in Rome during 1869 and 1870 as the twentieth Ecumenical Council. The Council ended abruptly with the …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• Vatican Council — The First Vatican Council took place in 1869 1870 and was the 20th of ecumenical councils recognized by Roman Catholicism.The Second Vatican Council took place in the 1962 1965 and was the 21st …   Wikipedia

• Vatican Council — the ecumenical council, convoked in Rome, 1869 70, by Pope Pius IX, that declared the dogma of papal infallibility. * * * …   Universalium

• VATICAN COUNCIL —    a Church council attended by 764 ecclesiastics under the auspices of Pius IX., which assembled on December 8, 1869, and by a majority of nearly 481 decreed the doctrine of Papal Infallibility …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Vatican Council I —  Ватиканский собор, первый …   Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов

• Vatican Council II —  Ватиканский собор, второй …   Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов