Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff

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First Vatican Council document document of the Catholic Church dogmatic constitution

Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff is the 1870 dogmatic constitution of the Catholic Church that definitively articulated papal primacy and papal infallibility.

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Label	Occurrences
Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff canonical	2
Papal primacy	1
Petrine primacy	1

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Target entity: Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff
Context triple: [First Vatican Council, documentSubject, Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff]

A. Concilio et Labore
Concilio et Labore is the Latin motto of Manchester City Council, traditionally translated as "By wisdom and effort" or "By counsel and hard work."
B. Lumen fidei
Lumen fidei is an encyclical letter on the nature and role of Christian faith in contemporary life, issued at the beginning of Pope Francis’s pontificate and closely linked to the theological work of Pope Benedict XVI.
C. Amoris laetitia
Amoris laetitia is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis that reflects on love, marriage, and family life in the contemporary world.
D. Roman Catechism
The Roman Catechism is an authoritative manual of Catholic doctrine, commissioned in the 16th century to systematically explain the faith in response to the Protestant Reformation.
E. Holy Orders
Holy Orders is the sacrament in which men are ordained as deacons, priests, or bishops to serve the Church’s ministry and leadership.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff
Target entity description: Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff is the 1870 dogmatic constitution of the Catholic Church that definitively articulated papal primacy and papal infallibility.

A. Concilio et Labore
Concilio et Labore is the Latin motto of Manchester City Council, traditionally translated as "By wisdom and effort" or "By counsel and hard work."
B. Lumen fidei
Lumen fidei is an encyclical letter on the nature and role of Christian faith in contemporary life, issued at the beginning of Pope Francis’s pontificate and closely linked to the theological work of Pope Benedict XVI.
C. Amoris laetitia
Amoris laetitia is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis that reflects on love, marriage, and family life in the contemporary world.
D. Roman Catechism
The Roman Catechism is an authoritative manual of Catholic doctrine, commissioned in the 16th century to systematically explain the faith in response to the Protestant Reformation.
E. Holy Orders
Holy Orders is the sacrament in which men are ordained as deacons, priests, or bishops to serve the Church’s ministry and leadership.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	First Vatican Council document ⓘ document of the Catholic Church ⓘ dogmatic constitution ⓘ
approvedBy	Pope Pius IX ⓘ
authorityTypeDefined	papal infallibility ⓘ papal primacy ⓘ
basisInScripture	Gospel of John 21:15–17 ⓘ linked to: Gospel of John Gospel of Matthew 16:18–19 ⓘ linked to: Gospel of Matthew
basisInTradition	constant tradition of the Church regarding the primacy of Peter and his successors ⓘ
controversy	disputes over the scope of papal infallibility ⓘ resignations and excommunications of some bishops who rejected the definition ⓘ
council	First Vatican Council ⓘ
definesDogma	conditions for ex cathedra papal teaching ⓘ papal infallibility ⓘ supreme primacy of the Pope over the whole Church ⓘ universal jurisdiction of the Pope ⓘ
ecclesiologicalTheme	Pope’s authority not merely of honor but of true and proper jurisdiction ⓘ Roman Pontiff as supreme pastor and teacher of all Christians ⓘ full and supreme power of jurisdiction of the Pope over the universal Church ⓘ irreformability of ex cathedra papal definitions ⓘ
historicalContext	19th‑century debates on papal authority ⓘ First Vatican Council ⓘ Italian unification and loss of the Papal States ⓘ
influenceOn	Second Vatican Council constitution Lumen gentium ⓘ linked to: Lumen Gentium canon law norms on papal primacy and infallibility ⓘ subsequent Catholic teaching on the papacy ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
opposedBy	Old Catholic movement ⓘ linked to: Old Catholicism
placeOfPromulgation	Vatican City ⓘ
promulgationDate	18 July 1870 ⓘ
relatedToDoctrine	Petrine primacy ⓘ linked to: Papacy ecclesial indefectibility ⓘ magisterium of the Church ⓘ linked to: magisterium of the Catholic Church
religiousTradition	Catholic Church ⓘ linked to: Roman Catholicism
section	chapter on the infallible magisterium of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ chapter on the institution of the apostolic primacy in blessed Peter ⓘ chapter on the perpetuity of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman Pontiffs ⓘ chapter on the power and nature of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
statusInCatholicTheology	dogmatically binding ⓘ irreformable teaching ⓘ
subject	infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ primacy of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
teaches	ex cathedra definitions are irreformable of themselves and not from the consent of the Church ⓘ the Roman Pontiff has ordinary and immediate jurisdiction over all churches and all the faithful ⓘ the primacy of the Bishop of Rome is of divine institution ⓘ when the Pope speaks ex cathedra he possesses infallibility ⓘ
title	Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ
year	1870 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

First Vatican Council → documentSubject → Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ

Pastor aeternus → title → Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff ⓘ

subject linked to: Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff

crossed keys of Saint Peter → hasTheologicalBasisIn → Petrine primacy ⓘ

linked to: Pastor aeternus – on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff

Catholic Church → hasDoctrine → Papal primacy ⓘ

subject linked to: Catholic Church worldwide