Concept information
Preferred term
Second Vatican Council
Definition
- The Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, was a gathering of some twenty-three hundred Catholic bishops from seventy-nine countries that opened in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, on October 11, 1962. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Vatican Council, Second]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Second_Vatican_Council
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