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Holy see

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vaticannounA city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy.
romenounA major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.
popenoun(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
holy fathernounThe title of the Pope of the Catholic Church.
bishop of romenoun(Christianity) The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
vicar of christnoun(Roman Catholicism) The Pope.
pontiffnounA bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope.
papalismnoun(historical) Hierocracy; the doctrine of the pope’s supreme authority in temporal as well as spiritual affairs.
papacynoun(usually) The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
catholic churchnounThe Catholic Church, which consists of 24 particular churches in full communion with the Pope as the Bishop of Rome.
church of romenounThe Roman Catholic Church.
popedomnounThe place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.
vaticanismnoun(usually derogatory) The doctrine of papal supremacy; views in support of the authority of the pope.
hierocracynounGovernment by ecclesiastics.
sedes vacansnoun(canon law) A papal or episcopal see when vacant.
curianoun(historical) The Roman senate during the republic
episcopacynounThe office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops.
titular churchnoun(Christianity) Any of the parish churches of Rome supplying a title to cardinal priests.
episcopatenounBishops seen as a group.
ecclesiastical statenoun(archaic, historical) The Papal States.

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