administrator, Bureaucrats, bureaucrats, checkuser, editor, emailconfirmed, move, Administrators
122,009
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{{topics}}
* [[Ultramonatism]] | [[Papal Infallibility]] | [[Pius Ix]]* [[Roman Catholicism]] | [[Old Catholic Church]]
* [[Second Vatican Council]]
{{opinions}}
==Main article==
The First Vatican Council was a council of the Roman Catholic Church summoned by Pope [[Pius IX ]] by the bull Aeterni Patris of June 29, 1868. The first session was held in Saint Peter's Basilica on December 8, 1869. Nearly 800 church leaders attended.
The pope's two primary purposes were to define the dogma of Papal Infallibility and to obtain confirmation of the position he had taken in his Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning a wide range of positions associated with rationalism, liberalism, and materialism.