Vatican I
When and where
1870 in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Crisis or controversy
A return to life of the Catholic Church:
needed a revival of
religious
life
General restoration and restatement of the
faith was needed;
Christian marriages and education needed
safeguarding.
Attendees
747 bishops,
Convened: Pius IX, Pope;
Ratified: Pius IX, Pope.
Decrees and resolutions
Promulgated decrees on the Catholic
Faith and on
the Church;
Condemned the Rationalists and
Semirationalists;
Defined the charism of infallibility.