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The First Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I, was the 20th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the preceding Council of Trent which was adjourned in 1563.
This council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Aeterni Patris of 29 June 1868. The first session was held in St Peter’s basilica on 8 December 1869.
First Vatican Council (1869–70), 20th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convoked by Pope Pius IX to deal with contemporary problems, notably the rising influence of rationalism, liberalism, and materialism. The council defined the conditions of papal infallibility.
The First Vatican Council, or Vatican I, was a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops. It was convoked by Pope Pius IX and convened from 1869 to 1870. About 700 bishops attended the opening.
DOCUMENTS OF THE FIRST VATICAN COUNCIL . Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius (24 April 1870) [Italian, Latin] Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus (18 July 1870)
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Vatican Council, First (1869–70) Twentieth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Convened by Pope Pius IX to refute various contemporary ideas associated with the rise of liberalism and materialism, it is chiefly remembered for its declaration of papal infallibility.
The First Vatican Council (Latin: Concilium Vaticanum Primum) was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868. This twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the Council of Trent, opened on 8 December 1869 and adjourned on 20 October 1870.
VATICAN COUNCIL I The 20th of the general councils, and the first to be held in st. peter's basilica, solemnly opened December 8, 1869, and suspended sessions September 1, 1870, after four solemn public sessions and 89 general congregations.
In this opening sentence of his great study of the First Vatican Council, Dom Cuthbert Butler points squarely to the issue dominant in the mind of the 760 or so Fathers of the Roman Church assembled in the Basilica of St. Peter’s during the fateful months of 1869-70.