First Vatican Council

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19th-century event Catholic Church council ecumenical council

The First Vatican Council was a 19th-century ecumenical council of the Catholic Church best known for defining the doctrine of papal infallibility and addressing issues of faith in the modern era.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form	Occurrences
First Vatican Council Fathers	1
First Vatican Council reception debates (as later commentator)	1
First Vatican Ecumenical Council	1
Fourth Session of the First Vatican Council	1
Vatican I	1
documents of Vatican I	1
documents of the First Vatican Council	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century event ⓘ Catholic Church council ⓘ ecumenical council ⓘ
addressedTopic	liberalism ⓘ modernism ⓘ papal infallibility ⓘ papal primacy ⓘ rationalism ⓘ relationship between faith and reason ⓘ
city	Rome ⓘ
closedOn	1870-10-20 ⓘ
convenedBy	Pope Pius IX ⓘ
convokedBy	Pope Pius IX ⓘ
country	Papal States ⓘ
definedDoctrine	papal infallibility ⓘ primacy of the Pope of Rome ⓘ
denomination	Roman Catholic ⓘ
documentSubject	Dei Filius – on the Catholic faith and revelation ⓘ Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
followedBy	Second Vatican Council ⓘ
heldAt	St. Peter's Basilica ⓘ
historicalContext	response to 19th-century secularism ⓘ response to nationalism and political upheaval in Europe ⓘ
influenced	development of papal authority in the Catholic Church ⓘ ecclesiology in the 19th and 20th centuries ⓘ
issuedDocument	Dei Filius ⓘ Pastor aeternus ⓘ
location	Vatican City ⓘ
numberInSequence	20th ecumenical council ⓘ
officialName	First Vatican Council self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: First Vatican Ecumenical Council
openedOn	1869-12-08 ⓘ
opposedBy	Old Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Old Catholic movement some liberal Catholic theologians ⓘ
participants	Catholic bishops ⓘ religious superiors ⓘ theologians as consultors ⓘ
precededBy	Council of Trent ⓘ
primaryLanguage	Latin ⓘ
reasonForInterruption	Franco-Prussian War ⓘ capture of Rome in 1870 ⓘ
region	Europe ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholic Church
result	dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith ⓘ dogmatic definition of papal infallibility ⓘ
shortName	First Vatican Council self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Vatican I
status	never formally closed by a concluding session ⓘ
theologicalFocus	authority of the Pope ⓘ certainty of faith ⓘ revelation and reason ⓘ

Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Albanian Greek Catholic Church → acceptsCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Belarusian Greek Catholic Church → acceptsCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Georgian Catholic Church → acceptsCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Russian Greek Catholic Church → acceptsCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Dei Filius → adoptedBy → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Vicar of Christ → affirmedBy → First Vatican Council ⓘ

dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith → approvedBy → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith

this entity surface form: First Vatican Council Fathers

Dei Filius – on the Catholic faith and revelation → approvedByCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Dei Filius

Pope Pius IX → convoked → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Dei Filius – on the Catholic faith and revelation → council → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Dei Filius

Dei Filius → council → First Vatican Council ⓘ

dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith → council → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith

Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff → council → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Pastor aeternus

Pastor aeternus → council → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Pastor aeternus → councilSession → First Vatican Council ⓘ

this entity surface form: Fourth Session of the First Vatican Council

Gallicanism → declinedAfter → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Papacy → definedByCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht → foundedAsReactionTo → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff → historicalContext → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Pastor aeternus

Pastor aeternus → historicalContext → First Vatican Council ⓘ

First Vatican Council → officialName → First Vatican Council self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: First Vatican Ecumenical Council

Gallicanism → opposedBy → First Vatican Council ⓘ

dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith → partOf → First Vatican Council ⓘ

subject surface form: Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith

this entity surface form: documents of the First Vatican Council

Pastor aeternus → partOf → First Vatican Council ⓘ

this entity surface form: documents of Vatican I

Michael von Faulhaber → participatedIn → First Vatican Council ⓘ

this entity surface form: First Vatican Council reception debates (as later commentator)

Second Vatican Council → precededBy → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Roman Catholicism → recognizesCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Old Catholicism → rejectsCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

Old Catholic Church of Slovakia → rejectsDogmaFromCouncil → First Vatican Council ⓘ

First Vatican Council → shortName → First Vatican Council self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vatican I

Ecclesiastical Latin → usedInCouncilDocuments → First Vatican Council ⓘ