Papal Inauguration

The Papal Inauguration Mass is a liturgical service of the Catholic Church (officiated with elements of both the Latin Rite and Eastern Rite) for the ecclesiastical investiture of the Pope. It replaced the millennium-old Papal Coronation after coronations fell out of favour as a form of papal inauguration after the Second Vatican Council.

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Liturgical service - Catholic Church - Latin Rite - Eastern Rite - Pope - Millennium - Papal Coronation - Coronation - Second Vatican Council

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Pope Paul VI, the last Pope to be crowned or use a Papal Tiara, abandoned the usage of the tiara in a ceremony at the end of the Council, and gave his personal tiara to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the City of Washington as a gift to the Catholics of the United States. However more than 20 other tiaras remain in the Vatican for possible future use. (One is still used to symbolically crown a statue of Saint Peter on his saint's day every year.) The first pope to receive an inauguration instead of coronation was Pope John Paul I.

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Pope Paul VI - Papal Tiara - Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception - City of Washington - United States - Saint Peter - Pope John Paul I

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