Annuario Pontificio

The Annuario Pontificio (Italian for Pontifical Yearbook) is the annual directory of the Holy See. It lists all the popes to date and all officials of the Holy See's departments. It also gives complete lists, with contact information, of the cardinals and Catholic bishops throughout the world, the dioceses (with statistics about each), the departments of the Roman Curia, the Holy See's diplomatic missions abroad, the embassies accredited to the Holy See, the headquarters of religious institutes (again with statistics on ...

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The Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh is a Byzantine Rite autonomous jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, originally serving members of the Ruthenian Catholic Church and their decendants in the United States. The Metropolia itself is composed of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (60,200 faithful, 84 parishes, 83 priests) and the Eparchies of Parma (12,401 faithful, 37 parishes, 38 priests), Passaic (24,031 faithful, 89 parishes, 84 priests) and Van Nuys (2,849 faithful, 19 parishes, 25 priests). Although the Ruthenians rem ...

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• Roman Catholic Church - Beliefs
• Roman Catholic Church - The nature of God
• Roman Catholic Church - Humanity's separation from God
• Roman Catholic Church - The role of the Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Magisterium
• Roman Catholic Church - Salvation
• Roman Catholic Church - The Christian Path
• Roman Catholic Church - Social teaching
• Roman Catholic Church - Liturgy
• Roman Catholic Church - Sacraments
• Roman Catholic Church - Relations with other Christians
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular Churches within the single Catholic Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular Churches or Rites
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular or local Churches
• Roman Catholic Church - Theological significance
• Roman Catholic Church - Note on liturgical rites in use within the Latin or Western Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Liturgical rites currently in use within the Catholic Church of Latin Rite
• Roman Catholic Church - Defunct Catholic Western liturgical rites
• Roman Catholic Church - The hierarchical constitution of the Church
• Roman Catholic Church - The Pope
• Roman Catholic Church - The cardinalate
• Roman Catholic Church - The episcopate
• Roman Catholic Church - Priests and deacons
• Roman Catholic Church - The consecrated life
• Roman Catholic Church - Worldwide distribution
• Roman Catholic Church - Criticisms and controversies
• Roman Catholic Church - Historical criticism
• Roman Catholic Church - Contemporary criticism

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The Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church or Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church is a Catholic Church sui iuris of the Byzantine Eastern Rite. The eparchy ("diocese") comprising the Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church is the Eparchy of Križevci. It once spanned the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; it mostly gathered its faithful among the Croats in central and eastern Croatia, Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia, and among the Rusyns and/or Ukrainians in eastern ...

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For a graphical representation of this list, see list of popes (graphical). This is a list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church. While the term "Pope" (Latin: papa "father'") is used in several churches to denote their high spiritual leaders, this title in English usage generally refers to the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma ...

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• List of popes - AD 500-750
• List of popes - AD 750-1000
• List of popes - AD 1000-1250
• List of popes - AD 1250-1500
• List of popes - AD 1500-1750
• List of popes - AD 1750-2000
• List of popes - From AD 2000
• List of popes - Notes on numbering of popes

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The Catholic Church is a Christian church, and therefore shares core beliefs with the majority of other trinitarian groups generally considered to be Christian. The Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed, which are accepted by all major Christian denominations, can be considered a fundamental core of the Catholic Church's beliefs. However some Christian denominations have developed a different understanding of many central issues concerning Christ's role in the Church and of the salvation of believers that vary greatly from the Church's historic teachings. The Catholic Church has published a detailed exposition of its ...

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Hermannus Contractus may have been the first historian to number the popes continuously. His list ends in 1049 with Pope Leo IX as the number 154. On that basis, the current Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th pope. A number of anomalies in the list given above need further explanation: Felix II (356-357), Boniface VII (974, 984-985), John XVI (997-998), Benedict X (1058-1059) and Alexander V (1409-1410) are not listed because they are considered antipopes. The numbering of popes named Felix has been amended to omit a ...

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In 1700 many of the Romanians of Transylvania, headed by Bishop Atanasie Anghel, entered into full communion with the see of Rome, while keeping their Byzantine liturgical rite. Metropolitan Atanasie Anghel and his Holy Synod took this course to obtain for the Romanians of Transylvania (then part of the Habsburg Empire) the same rights as the other nations of the Unio Trium Nationum (nobility, Transylvanian Saxons and széklers). The event coincided with the arrival of the Jes ...

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Although, after the failure of the attempts by the Council of Lyons in 1274 and by the Council of Florence in 1439 to repair the breach of the East-West Schism between Greek and Latin Christians, many individual Greeks, then under Ottoman rule, embraced Catholicism, it was not until the 1880s that a church specifically for Greek Catholics who followed the Byzantine Rite was built in the village of Malgara in Thrace. Before the end of the nineteenth century two more such churches were b ...

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The Roman Catholic Church traces its origins to Saint Peter, apostle to Rome. It rose to prominence with the Constantinian shift in the late Roman Empire (4th century), under Constantine I. Christianity was the Roman state religion from 380. See History of the Roman Catholic Church for details. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that it was instituted by Jesus Christ for the salvation of all people, and that this is accomplished through teaching and administering the seven sacraments - Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation ( ...

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Over the centuries, the Catholic Church has encountered criticisms for numerous reasons. (Some particular controversies are discussed in separate articles. See, for instance, on the charge of anti-Semitism, Relations between Catholicism and Judaism.) Pope John Paul II acknowledged publicly that certain members (including leadership) of the Catholic Church have sometimes been involved in questionable activities, and asked God to forgive the sins of its members, both in action and omission. ...

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For many centuries there were as many or more liturgical rites in the Latin-Rite or Western Catholic Church, as in the East. In the aftermath of the Council of Trent, in 1568 and 1570 Pope St Pius V suppressed the Breviaries and Missals that could not be shown to have an antiquity of at least two centuries. Many that remained legitimate even after this decree were abandoned voluntarily, a process that continued into the second half of the twentieth century. A few persist today for the celebration of Mass, b ...

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Roman Catholic Church is a term that other Christian Churches often, though by no means exclusively, use for this Church. The Church itself too accepts this description in its relations with other Churches, but normally calls itself the Catholic Church. It has also sometimes, because of the centrality for it of the see of Rome, sometimes applied the adjective "Roman" to itself in its entirety even in internal documents, as when, at the start of chapter 1 of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith ...

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The Catholic Church sees the eucharistic liturgy, the celebration of the Mystery of Christ, in particular the Paschal Mystery of his death and resurrection, as the high point of its activity and the source of its life and strength. As explained in greater detail in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its shorter Compendium, the liturgy is something that "the whole Christ", Head and Body, celebrates - Christ, the one High Priest, together with his Body, the Church in heaven and on earth. Involved in the heavenly litu ...

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The Roman Catholic Church, like other ancient Christian Churches such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, recognizes and administers seven sacraments as gifts from Christ to his Church. These signs perceptible to the senses are seen as means by which Christ gives the particular grace indicated by the sign aspect of the sacrament in question, helping the individual to advance in holiness, and contributing to the Church' s growth in charity and in giving witness. Not every individual receives every sacrament, but the Church sees the sacraments as ...

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Roman Catholic Church - The Pope. What most obviously distinguishes the Catholic Church from other Christian bodies is the link between its members and the Pope. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 882, quoting the Second Vatican Council’s document Lumen Gentium, states: "The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, ‘is the perpetual and visible source and foundati ...

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Unlike "families" or "communions" of Churches that see themselves as distinct Churches, the Church of those who are in full communion with the Pope considers itself a single Church, not a federation of Churches. It has authoritatively expressed this self-understanding in, for instance, the 28 May 1992 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on some aspects of the Church understood as communion, 9.[10]Accordingly, it has never adopted the usage of those who apply the term "Roman Catholic" to the Latin-Rite or Western Church alone, ...

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The Catholic Church attributes very high authority to 21 Ecumenical Councils: Nicaea I (325), Constantinople I (381), Ephesus (431), Chalcedon (451), Constantinople II (553), Constantinople III (680-681), Nicaea II (787), Constantinople IV (869-870), Lateran I (1123), Lateran II (1139), Lateran III (1179), Lateran IV (1215), Lyons I (1245), Lyons II (1274), Vienne (1311-1312), Constance (1414-1418), Florence (1438-1445), Lateran V (1512 ...

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