Ad Gentes

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Ad Gentes is the Second Vatican Council’s decree on the missionary activity of the Church, outlining Catholic theology and practice of evangelization in the modern world.

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new evangelization 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic magisterial document
Second Vatican Council decree
missionary decree
approvedBy Second Vatican Council
authorityScope universal Church
churchCouncilNumber Fifth Lateran Council
surface form: Twenty-first ecumenical council
concerns evangelization of non-Christian peoples
missionary activity ad gentes
missionary cooperation
missionary spirituality
council Second Vatican Council
dateOfPromulgation 1965-12-07
documentType decree
ecclesialStatus conciliar decree
era modern period of the Catholic Church
focusesOn adaptation to cultures
cooperation among missionary institutes
formation of missionaries
missionary mandate of the Church
role of local churches in mission
hasCanonicalStatus authoritative teaching document
influenced Catholic missionary practice in the late 20th century
post–Vatican II Catholic missiology
language Latin
latinMeaningOfTitle To the Nations
openingWords Ad Gentes self-link
originalTitle Ad Gentes self-link
partOf documents of the Second Vatican Council
placeOfPromulgation Vatican City
promulgatedBy Pope Paul VI
promulgatedInPontificateOf Pope Paul VI
relatedTo Gaudium et Spes
Lumen Gentium
Nostra Aetate
Unitatis Redintegratio
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
subject Catholic missions
evangelization
missiology
missionary activity of the Church
practice of evangelization in the modern world
theology of mission
teaches establishment of local hierarchies
importance of witness and proclamation
inculturation of the Gospel
respect for peoples and cultures
universal call of the Church to mission
titleLanguage Latin

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Ad Gentes openingWords Ad Gentes self-link
Ad Gentes originalTitle Ad Gentes self-link
Evangelii gaudium subject Ad Gentes
this entity surface form: new evangelization