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Tradition Institution Christianity

Catholicism

Catholicismus la ܟܰܬܘܠܺܝܩܺܝܽܘܬ̣ܳܐ arc

Christian doctrine professed by the Catholic Church

  • Dated from 1054 CE
  • Also called Catholic faith, Catholic religion, Roman Catholicism

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches · 7

Many paths. Shared histories.

7 branches recorded under Catholicism, one step down, as the records give them.

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.

Traditions whose own records say they belong to it

26 traditions name Catholicism as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.

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Overview

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

Figures · 400

Begin with a figure

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 400 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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160 more are recorded. The full index filters by name and by collection.

Texts · 2

Texts and teachings

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 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 · 1,543

Places and sites

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1,543 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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1,303 more are recorded. The full index filters by name and by collection.

The Christianity collection on the atlas

Festivals and practices · 26

Festivals, holy days and practices

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 26 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.

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The Christianity collection holds 235 festivals and practices in all; 209 of them do not name Catholicism on their own records. See them in the collection

Events · 16

Events, in time order

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 16 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. 569 CE

    First Council of Lugo

    1 January 569 CE Roman Catholic synod
  2. c. 1758 CE

    Our Lady of Ortiga

    Reported c. 1758 CE Title of Mary, mother of Jesus, related to her alleged apparitions in Ortiga, Portugal
  3. 1846 CE

    Apparition mariale de La Salette

    Reported 19 September 1846 CE
  4. 1858 CE

    Lourdes apparitions

    Reported 11 February 1858 CE – 16 July 1858 CE Marian apparitions recognized by the Catholic church
  5. 1877 CE

    Marian apparitions of Gietrzwałd

    Reported 27 June 1877 CE – 16 September 1877 CE Marian apparitions in Gietrzwałd in 1877
  6. 1925 CE

    Pontevedra apparitions

    Reported 10 December 1925 CE – 15 February 1926 CE Marian apparition to Sister Lucie, in 1925 in Pontevedra, Spain
  7. 1933 CE

    Marian apparitions of Banneux

    Reported 15 January 1933 CE – 2 March 1933 CE Marian apparitions in Belgium
  8. 1961 CE

    Garabandal apparitions

    Reported 18 June 1961 CE – 13 November 1965 CE Apparitions of Michael the Archangel and the Virgin Mary from 1961 to 1965 in northern Spain
  9. 1976 CE

    Marian apparitions of Betania

    Reported 25 March 1976 CE – 1989 CE Marian apparitions in Venezuela
  10. 2013 CE

    2013 conclave

    12 March 2013 CE – 13 March 2013 CE Conclave convened to elect a pope to succeed Benedict XVI
  11. 2025 CE

    2025 conclave

    7 May 2025 CE – 8 May 2025 CE Election of the sucessor of Pope Francis in 2025
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Institutions · 81

Institutions, offices and houses

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 81 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 Catholicism connects

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

Documented influence 1

What this means

A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.

Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database

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.

3 statements on this record

  • 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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