Vatican Council
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- noun
- /ˈvætɪkən ˈkaʊnsl/
:
Concilio Vaticano
- Published theological works on Guadalupe have increased remarkably in the decades since the Second Vatican Council.
- the Second Vatican Council
- the First Vatican Council
- Vatican Council II
Examples
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Josef Hasenfuss refers to him as the "forerunner of the Second Vatican Council."
Academic text (1993) -
The bilateral dialogues emerging between churches after the Second Vatican Council followed the same faith and order agenda.
Academic text (2015) -
While I was in college, the Second Vatican Council took place.
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Perhaps the greatest legacy of the Second Vatican Council is that there is a legacy.
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Remarkably, this book was written two decades before the Second Vatican Council.
Academic text (2003) -
The documents on religious pluralism from the Second Vatican Council also make such an attempt.
Academic text (1999) -
The ecumenical enthusiasm of the decades after the Second Vatican Council is over.
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Is ecumenism a dead relic of the Second Vatican Council?
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The NCCB and the USCC were established in 1966, just after the Second Vatican Council.
Academic text (1993) -
The Second Vatican Council played a significant role in modernizing the Catholic Church's teachings.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun phrase combining 'Vatican' (the city-state/religious center) with 'council' (an assembly), so its meaning — a council held by or at the Vatican — is directly inferable from the parts. This referential, compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Vatican Council comes from real meetings of Catholic bishops held at the Vatican, the Church's central place. In these big gatherings the bishops talked together and 'decided' on important beliefs and rules, so today the phrase means a major Church meeting that led to lasting changes.