- Look up
vatican or
Vatican in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Vatican may
refer to:
Vatican City, an
independent city-state
surrounded by Rome, Italy...
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Vatican City,
officially the
Vatican City
State (Italian:
Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin:
Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a
landlocked country,...
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Apostolic See, is the
central governing body of the
Catholic Church and the
Vatican City. It encomp****es the
office of the pope as the
bishop of the apostolic...
- head of
state of the
Papal States, and
since 1929 of the much
smaller Vatican City state. From a
Catholic viewpoint, the
primacy of the
bishop of Rome...
- The
Second E****enical
Council of the
Vatican,
commonly known as the
Second Vatican Council or
Vatican II, was the 21st and most
recent e****enical council...
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protects the Pope and the
Apostolic Palace within the
territory of the
Vatican City State.
Established in 1506
under Pope
Julius II, it is
among the oldest...
- The so-called
Vatican Mythographers (Latin:
Mythographi Vaticani) are the
anonymous authors of
three Latin mythographical texts found together in a single...
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Vatican Hill
Vatican Hill (/ˈvætɪkən/; Latin: Mons Vatic****; Italian:
Colle Vaticano) is a hill in Rome,
located on the
right bank (west side) of Tiber...
- The
Papal Basilica of
Saint Peter in the
Vatican (Italian:
Basilica Papale di San
Pietro in Vaticano), or
simply Saint Peter's
Basilica (Latin: Basilica...
- The flag of
Vatican City is the
national flag of
Vatican City. It was
adopted in 1929, the year Pope Pius XI
signed the
Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating...
