first vatican council

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   the Vatican Council in 1869-1870 that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra

   SynonymsVatican I

   BroaderVatican Council

Questions about first vatican council

What does first vatican council mean?

first vatican council means "the Vatican Council in 1869-1870 that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra".

What is another word for first vatican council?

Close synonyms include Vatican I. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first vatican council a common word?

first vatican council is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.