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By virtue of the doctrines of Petrine and papal primacy, it is the focal point of full communion for Catholics around the world. [14] The Holy See is headquartered in, operates from, and exercises "exclusive dominion" over Vatican City, an independent city-state enclaved in Rome, and of which the pope is the head of state. [15]
The Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes, "holy seat") is the episcopal see of Rome.The incumbent of the see is the Bishop of Rome — the Pope.The term Holy See, as used in Canon law, also refers to the Pope and the Roman Curia—in effect, the central government of the Catholic Church—and is the sense more widely used today.
On August 28, 1874, the Diocese of Galveston was divided and the northern territory was canonically erected by the Holy See as the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Antonio. Originally part of the Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans , it was subsequently elevated on August 3, 1926, to a metropolitan archdiocese.
The Holy See also confers orders, decorations and medals, such as the orders of chivalry originating from the Middle Ages. While the famous Saint Peter's Basilica is located in Vatican City, above the traditional site of Saint Peter's tomb, the papal cathedral for the Diocese of Rome is the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, located within the ...
Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Gurgaon, see located near Delhi, serving 22 states of India; in Indonesia: Military Ordinariate of Indonesia; in and for all Iran (Persia): Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan; Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (for former Anglicans in Australia and Japan). in Korea (North and South):
The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See is located in Rome in the Villa Domiziana. The Nunciature to the United States is located in Washington, D.C., at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Uruguay: 1877: See Holy See–Uruguay relations. The Holy See has a nunciatue in Montevideo. Uruguay has an embassy in Rome to the Holy See. Venezuela: 1869
The National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Catedral Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) or just simply Cathedral Guadalupe is the cathedral church of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas. The structure dates from the late 19th century [1] and is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas.
The Holy See, metonymically called as The Vatican, the governing body of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church and city-state of Vatican City; Roman Curia, the administrative apparatus of the Holy See; Vatican Apostolic Archive; Vatican Library; Vatican Publishing House