Wednesday December 24, 2003
Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao of Japan, an important Vatican official who heads the Vatican office for migrants, has called for a Third Vatican Council to deal with the question of local church authority. Specifically, Hamao wants to see local churches to have more authority to make decisions for themselves.
Vatican Council I was the first Ecumenical Council to be held at the Vatican in Vatican City which is an independent country.
Vatican Council I met from 1869 to 1870.
There were exactly no doctrines defined at the Second Vatican Council. The Second Vatican Council was the first purely pastoral council ever held in the Church.
Pope Pius V called for the First Vatican Council.
Yes, it was an ecumenical council.
Yes
The Second Vatican Council said nothing about beverages in Church.
The role of the First Vatican Council was an ecumenical Council that defined Papal infallibility and several other doctrinal issues. The role of the Second Vatican Council was purely pastoral.
The First Vatican Council was held in Rome, Italy in the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
In Vatican City, thus the name Vatican Council II.
It was held in Vatican City from 1962-1965.
The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868 and was formally closed in 1960 prior to Vatican II