Definition of Holy See

1. Noun. The smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929.


Definition of Holy See

1. Proper noun. The episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent see of the Catholic Church. It is also the sovereign entity headed by the Pope which governs the Vatican and represents the Catholic Church in temporal affairs. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy See

Holy Ghost
Holy Grail
Holy Innocents' Day
Holy Joe
Holy Land
Holy Mother
Holy Mother of God
Holy Roller
Holy Rollers
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Sacrament
Holy Scripture
Holy See (current term)
Holy Sepulcher
Holy Sepulchre
Holy Spirit
Holy Thursday
Holy Trinity
Holy War Warriors
Holy Wednesday
Holy Week
Holy Writ
Holy Year
Holy of Holies
Holyhead
Holynesses
Holyrood

Literary usage of Holy See

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Congregations approved by the Holy See have the organization of ... With this exception, the chapter is not summoned without the consent of the Holy See. ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"And it must further be emphasised that the Holy See cannot conclude ... Again, the so-called concordats—that is, treaties between the Holy See and States ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"France, or rather her leader, dared to present a sort of ultimatum to the Holy See, embodying a total amnesty, lay administration, and Liberal institutions. ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1871)
"Equally matter of notoriety are the solemn reclamations and protests of the Holy See against that sacrilegious spoliation; reclamations and protests made ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"Indeed, as the proposition he sets himself to establish is that r. against the Holy See, as the embodiment of the Empire-Church, is visibly the political ..."

6. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1908)
"... what Leo X. had most at heart were the temporal power and independence of the Holy See and the so-called liberty of Italy. ..."

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