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Pius IX

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Pius IX Originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. 1792-1878.
Pope (1846-1878) who summoned the First Vatican Council (1869-1870).
Pius IX
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(Biographies / Pius IX (1792-1878) M, Italian, RELIGION: clergyman, RELIGION: pope) original name Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. 1792-1878, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1846-78). He refused to recognize the incorporation of Rome and the Papal States in the kingdom of Italy, confining himself to the Vatican after 1870. He decreed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854) and convened the Vatican Council, which laid down the doctrine of papal infallibility (1870)
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Noun1.Pius IX - Italian pope from 1846 to 1878 who in 1854 declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary
Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti


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