(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Nov 24 2005 at 5:34:51

Vat"i*can Coun"cil. (R. C. Ch.)

The council held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility.

 

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