Vatican Council

American  

noun

1. the ecumenical council, convoked in Rome, 1869–70, by Pope Pius IX, that declared the dogma of papal infallibility.

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Example Sentences

“Converts” begins in the 1890s and ends with the Second Vatican Council in the early ’60s, when marquee conversions almost stopped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Some analysts have compared the meeting to a miniature Second Vatican Council — the landmark church assembly of bishops in the 1960s that opened up the church to the modern world.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Critics saw his papacy as a concerted drive to turn back the clock on reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which modernised the Church in sometimes turbulent ways.

From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022

Pope Francis has been cracking down on the unregulated explosion of such communities that blossomed after the Second Vatican Council and found favor under St. John Paul II.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2022

I was a senior at Stanford during the last year of the Vatican Council.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez