VATICAN COUNCIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vatican Council mean? 

• VATICAN COUNCIL (noun)
  The noun VATICAN COUNCIL has 1 sense:

1. each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church

  Familiarity information: VATICAN COUNCIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VATICAN COUNCIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Vatican Council" is a kind of...):

council ((Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Vatican Council"):

First Vatican Council; Vatican I (the Vatican Council in 1869-1870 that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra)

Second Vatican Council; Vatican II (the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms)