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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > events and historical topics in global religion > Second Vatican Council
... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of religion > global religion > events and historical topics in global religion > Second Vatican Council

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Second Vatican Council  

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  • 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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