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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. Enclaved Holy See's independent city-state This article is about the city-state in Europe. For the city-state's government, see Holy See. Vatican City State Stato della Città del Vaticano (Italian) Status Civitatis Vaticanae (Latin) Flag Coat of arms Anthem: Inno e Marcia Pontificale ...
The Curia was created by Pope Urban II (r. 1088–1099). [5]Curia in medieval and later Latin usage means "court" in the sense of "royal court" rather than "court of law".". The Roman Curia is sometimes anglicized as the Court of Rome, as in the 1534 Act of Parliament that forbade appeals to it from Englan
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, quoting the Second Vatican Council's document Lumen gentium, states: "The pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, 'is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.'" [32] Communion with the bishop of Rome has become such a ...
The Lateran Treaty on 11 February 1929 between the Holy See and Italy recognised Vatican City as an independent city-state, along with extraterritorial properties around the region. Since then, Vatican City is distinct from yet under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See (Latin: Sancta ...
If he is a cardinal elector and participates in a conclave, he announces a new pope's election and name [i] from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. The protodeacon also bestows the pallium on the new pope and crowns him with the papal tiara , although the crowning has not been celebrated since Pope John Paul I opted ...
Graham, Robert, Vatican Diplomacy: A Study of Church and State on the International Plane (1959) Ireland, Gordon, “The State of the City of the Vatican,” 27 American Journal of International Law 271 (1933). Kunz, Josef L., “The Status of the Holy See in International Law,” 46 American Journal of International Law 308 (1952)
The Diocese of Rome (Latin: Dioecesis Urbis seu Romana; [2] Italian: Diocesi di Roma), also called the Vicariate of Rome, [3] is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church under the direct jurisdiction of the Pope, who is Bishop of Rome and hence the supreme pontiff and head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Jurisdiction, insofar as it covers the relations of man to God, is called jurisdiction of the internal forum or jurisdiction of the forum of Heaven (jurisdictio poli) (see Ecclesiastical Forum); this again is either a) sacramental or penitential, so far as it is used in the Sacrament of Penance, or b) extra-sacramental, e.g. in granting ...