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  • Second Vatican
  • Ecumenical Council
  • Concilium Oecumenicum Vaticanum Secundum (Latin)
  • Saint Peter's Basilica
  • (Venue of the Second Vatican Council)
Date11 October 1962 (11 October 1962) – 8 December 1965 (8 December 1965)
Accepted byCatholic Church
Previous council
First Vatican Council (1869–1870)
Convoked byPope John XXIII
President
  • Pope John XXIII
  • Pope Paul VI
AttendanceUp to 2,625[1]
TopicsComplete unfinished task of Vatican I and ecumenical outreach to address needs of modern world
Documents and statements
Four constitutions:
  • Sacrosanctum Concilium (Sacred Liturgy)
  • Lumen gentium (The Church)
  • Dei verbum (Divine Revelation)
  • Gaudium et spes (The Modern World)

Nine decrees:

  • Inter mirifica (The Media)
  • Orientalium Ecclesiarum (The Eastern Rite)
  • Unitatis redintegratio (Ecumenism)
  • Christus Dominus (Bishops in the Church)
  • Perfectae caritatis (Religious Life)
  • Optatam totius (Priestly Training)
  • Apostolicam actuositatem (Apostolate of the Laity)
  • Ad gentes (Mission Activity)
  • Presbyterorum ordinis (Priestly Ministry)

Three declarations:

  • Gravissimum educationis (Education)
  • Nostra aetate (Non-Christian Religions)
  • Dignitatis humanae (Religious Freedom)
Chronological list of ecumenical councils

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met in Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for four periods (or sessions), each lasting between 8 and 12 weeks, in the autumn of each of the four years 1962 to 1965. Preparation for the council took three years, from the summer of 1959 to the autumn of 1962. The council was opened on 11 October 1962 by John XXIII (pope during the preparation and the first session), and was closed on 8 December 1965 by Paul VI (pope during the last three sessions, after the death of John XXIII on 3 June 1963).

Pope John XXIII called the council because he felt the Church needed "updating" (in Italian: aggiornamento). In order to better connect with people in an increasingly secularized world, some of the Church's practices needed to be improved and presented in a more understandable and relevant way.[citation needed] Many Council participants were sympathetic to this, while others saw little need for change and resisted. Support for aggiornamento won out over resistance to change, and as a result the sixteen magisterial documents produced by the council proposed significant developments in doctrine and practice: an extensive reform of the liturgy; a renewed theology of the Church, of revelation and of the laity; and new approaches to relations between the Church and the world, to ecumenism, to non-Christian religions, and to religious freedom.[citation needed]

The council had a significant impact on the Church due to the scope and variety of issues it addressed.[2]

  1. ^ Cheney, David M. "Second Vatican Council". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  2. ^ O'Malley 2008.

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