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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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The first Vatican Council met roughly ninety years earlier and served to centralize power on the pope.
Then in 1871 the First Vatican Council seemed to place the pope on an omniscient pedestal, requiring little input from anyone outside his circle of advisers.
Reviewing the outlines of planned texts, he remarked that they might be appropriate to the world of the First Vatican Council, but not to that of the Second.
 
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