Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff

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First Vatican Council document document of the Catholic Church dogmatic constitution

Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff is the 1870 dogmatic constitution of the Catholic Church that definitively articulated papal primacy and papal infallibility.

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Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	First Vatican Council document ⓘ document of the Catholic Church ⓘ dogmatic constitution ⓘ
approvedBy	Pope Pius IX ⓘ
authorityTypeDefined	papal infallibility ⓘ papal primacy ⓘ
basisInScripture	Gospel of John ⓘ surface form: Gospel of John 21:15–17 Gospel of Matthew ⓘ surface form: Gospel of Matthew 16:18–19
basisInTradition	constant tradition of the Church regarding the primacy of Peter and his successors ⓘ
controversy	disputes over the scope of papal infallibility ⓘ resignations and excommunications of some bishops who rejected the definition ⓘ
council	First Vatican Council ⓘ
definesDogma	conditions for ex cathedra papal teaching ⓘ papal infallibility ⓘ supreme primacy of the Pope over the whole Church ⓘ universal jurisdiction of the Pope ⓘ
ecclesiologicalTheme	Pope’s authority not merely of honor but of true and proper jurisdiction ⓘ Roman Pontiff as supreme pastor and teacher of all Christians ⓘ full and supreme power of jurisdiction of the Pope over the universal Church ⓘ irreformability of ex cathedra papal definitions ⓘ
historicalContext	19th‑century debates on papal authority ⓘ First Vatican Council ⓘ Italian unification and loss of the Papal States ⓘ
influenceOn	Lumen Gentium ⓘ surface form: Second Vatican Council constitution Lumen gentium canon law norms on papal primacy and infallibility ⓘ subsequent Catholic teaching on the papacy ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
opposedBy	Old Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Old Catholic movement
placeOfPromulgation	Vatican City ⓘ
promulgationDate	18 July 1870 ⓘ
relatedToDoctrine	Papacy ⓘ surface form: Petrine primacy ecclesial indefectibility ⓘ magisterium of the Catholic Church ⓘ surface form: magisterium of the Church
religiousTradition	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholic Church
section	chapter on the infallible magisterium of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ chapter on the institution of the apostolic primacy in blessed Peter ⓘ chapter on the perpetuity of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman Pontiffs ⓘ chapter on the power and nature of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
statusInCatholicTheology	dogmatically binding ⓘ irreformable teaching ⓘ
subject	infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ primacy of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
teaches	ex cathedra definitions are irreformable of themselves and not from the consent of the Church ⓘ the Roman Pontiff has ordinary and immediate jurisdiction over all churches and all the faithful ⓘ the primacy of the Bishop of Rome is of divine institution ⓘ when the Pope speaks ex cathedra he possesses infallibility ⓘ
title	Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff self-linksurface differs ⓘ
year	1870 ⓘ

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