An apostolic constitution (Latin: constitutio apostolica) is the most solemn form of legislation issued by the Pope. By their nature, apostolic constitutions...

The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) is a Christian collection divided into eight books...

importance only to the highest ranking document now issued by popes, an Apostolic Constitution. The title of a Papal Encyclical is usually taken from its first...

current[update] procedures were established by Pope John Paul II in his apostolic constitution, Universi Dominici gregis, as amended by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007...

administration of the Patrimony of Saint Peter. As regulated in the apostolic constitution Pastor bonus of 1988, the Camerlengo is always a cardinal, though...

The apostolic constitution Non Debet Reprehensibile of 31 December 1487 established the Secretaria Apostolica comprising twenty-four apostolic secretaries...

administration Apostolic constitution, a public decree issued by the Pope Apostolic Palace, the residence of the Pope in Vatican City Apostolic prefect, the...

especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution. William Blackstone used the term for significant and egregious...

anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, with his apostolic constitution Fidei depositum (in English, The Deposit of Faith). On 15 August...

liturgical and spiritual patrimony. Created in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009 and its complementary norms...

responsibilities within the Curia are at present regulated by the apostolic constitution, Praedicate evangelium issued by Pope Francis on 19 March 2022,...

grant 200 days of indulgence; archbishops, 100; bishops, 50. By the apostolic constitution Indulgentiarum doctrina of 1 January 1967, Pope Paul VI, responding...

emperor Apostolic constitution, a level of decree issued by a Pope Apostolic Constitutions, a collection of Early Christian canon law Constitution of the...

an appendix to the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions. Like the other Ancient Church Orders, the Apostolic Canons uses a pseudepigraphic form. These...

as proclaimed in the apostolic constitution Sapientia christiana. As of 2018, they are governed by the apostolic constitution Veritatis gaudium issued...

Pope John Paul II made it a personal prelature in 1982 by the apostolic constitution Ut sit; that is, the jurisdiction of the Opus Dei's head covers...

The Apostolic Palace (Latin: Palatium Apostolicum; Italian: Palazzo Apostolico) is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church...

Europe's Christian cultural roots in the draft of the European Constitution. In his 2003 apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa, John Paul II wrote that he...

Pope Paul VI initiated a simplification of the procedures. The Apostolic constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister of Pope John Paul II of 25 January...

in consultation with the Congregation for the Clergy. When the Apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium promulgated by Pope Francis took effect on...

the Curia by the Constitution "Sapienti consilio" of 29 June 1908, signed the papal Bulls instead of the earlier abbreviatores. Apostolic protonotaries supernumerary...

Heaven at the end of her earthly life. On 1 November 1950, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of...

Sacramentum caritatis, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation published in 2007 Sacramentum Poenitentiae, an apostolic constitution published by Pope Benedict XIV...

Missale Romanum ("On the Roman Missal") is the incipit of an apostolic constitution issued by Pope Paul VI on 3 April 1969. It promulgated the new revised...

The major source for the history of the Antiochene Rite is the Apostolic Constitutions. This text contains two liturgical outlines, as well as the oldest...

originally known as camerarius (chamberlain). In 2022, Pope Francis's apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium abolished the office as of 5 June. The office...

Vatican Council, Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, 89 d". The Holy See. 4 December 1963. Retrieved 20 May 2019. "Apostolic Constitution Laudis canticum"...

Christo Ecclesiae [Latin, “Founded by the Church of Christ”], the apostolic constitution of Pope Leo XIII. Code of Canon Law (C.I.C.), can. 589. Kollmorgen...

honour to the Mother of God. In addition, Pope Pius XII, through the apostolic constitution Bis Saeculari (1948), gave special honour to the Sodality of Our...

necessary substituting the office of the Apostolic Datary for their proprietors. The Apostolic constitution Sapienti Consilio of Pope Pius X of 29 June...