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Catholic Church

Ecclesia Catholica Romana la ܥܕܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝ ܕܪܗܘܡܝܐ arc

Largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity

  • Dated from 1st century CE
  • Also called Roman Catholic Church, Roman Apostolic Catholic Church, Roman Rite Catholic Church
Affiliated traditions

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Affiliations · 31

Traditions that name it as theirs

31 traditions name Catholic Church as their own — an affiliation read from their records, not a branch.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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Overview

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In 15 other languages

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Attributed founding

Whom the records name as founder

What this means

An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Figures · 1,176

Begin with a figure

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1,176 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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936 more are recorded. The full index filters by name and by collection.

Texts · 3

Texts and teachings

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 3 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

Where a date is shown it is when the text was written — the source’s clock, never the time of what it tells.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Places · 24

Places and sites

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 24 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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Festivals and practices · 12

Festivals, holy days and practices

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 12 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A holy day’s day is the one its record states it is observed on. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock, and one named here is not evidence of when or where it was kept.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Holy days and festivals · 3, each with the day its record gives

Rites and practices · 9, with no day on record

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The Christianity collection holds 235 festivals and practices in all; 223 of them do not name Catholic Church on their own records. See them in the collection

Events · 79

Events, in time order

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 79 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

Each is set out by its own date on the historical clock. An event that names a tradition — a council, a schism, a persecution — says who took part or was affected, not what every adherent held.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1700 CE

    1700 papal conclave

    9 October 1700 CE – 23 November 1700 CE Conclave
  2. 1799 CE

    1799–1800 papal conclave

    1 December 1799 CE – 14 March 1800 CE Election of Pope Pius VII
  3. 1878 CE

    1878 papal conclave

    16 February 1878 CE – 20 February 1878 CE Conclave
  4. 1903 CE

    1903 conclave

    31 July 1903 CE – 4 August 1903 CE Election of Pope Pius X
  5. 1914 CE

    1914 conclave

    31 August 1914 CE – 3 September 1914 CE Conclave
  6. 1922 CE

    1922 conclave

    2 February 1922 CE – 6 February 1922 CE Conclave
  7. 1939 CE

    1939 conclave

    1 March 1939 CE – 2 March 1939 CE Conclave
  8. 1958 CE

    1958 conclave

    25 October 1958 CE – 28 October 1958 CE Conclave
  9. 1963 CE

    1963 conclave

    19 June 1963 CE – 21 June 1963 CE Conclave
  10. 1978 CE

    August 1978 conclave

    25 August 1978 CE – 26 August 1978 CE 1978 Conclave
  11. 1978 CE

    October 1978 conclave

    14 October 1978 CE – 16 October 1978 CE Conclave
  12. 2005 CE

    2005 conclave

    18 April 2005 CE – 19 April 2005 CE Conclave
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Institutions · 163

Institutions, offices and houses

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 163 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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Connections

How Catholic Church connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 3

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded events and days 1

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.

Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

5 statements on this record

  • 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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