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First Vatican Council

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Noun1.First Vatican Council - the Vatican Council in 1869-1870 that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra
Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church


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A familiar part of this story tells of the desperate reactions of the Vatican to the impending loss of the Papal States, including the condemnation of liberalism in the Syllabus of Errors in 1864 and the proclamation of papal primacy and infallibility by the First Vatican Council in 1870, coincident with the Franco-Prussian War.
The Old Catholic Church was founded after the First Vatican Council in 1870 declared papal infallibility.
In the run-up to the First Vatican Council, ultramontanism--the high doctrine of papal supremacy--despite the protests of theologians as great as John Henry Newman, and under the prompting sometimes of popular enthusiasm from below and sometimes divisive papal encouragement from above, became increasingly identified as the essence of Catholic Christianity.
 
 
 
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