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The First Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I, was the 20th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the preceding
Window in Domalain, Brittany, showing the Proclamation of Papal Infallibility
Catholic ecclesiastics from various countries gathered in Rome for the council
Drawing showing the First Vatican Council
Medal marking Vatican I
Second Vatican Council
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The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the twenty-first and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It met in St.
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…Anticoncilio of freethinkers to take place in Naples on the same days as Vatican I. This meeting was dissolved by Italian police after just two days. Second Vatican Council Text of the council's ruling…
Council Fathers from various sui juris churches in St. Peter's Square
Before a papal Mass at the council in St. Peter's Basilica.
Council Fathers at the council.
Council Fathers in Vestments.