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Capital: Vatican CityPopulation: ~800 (one of the smallest populations of any state in the world)Founded: 11 February 1929 (Lateran Treaty, independence from Italy)Region: EuropeLanguages: itCurrency: Euro (EUR); Vatican City mints its own commemorative euro coins

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Notable people from Vatican

Apostle and First Bishop of Rome

Regarded by the Catholic Church as the first Pope and Bishop of Rome, buried beneath St. Peter's Basilica.

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Pope Leo the Great

Pope and Theologian

His Tome to Flavian shaped the Council of Chalcedon's definition of Christ's nature, and he is traditionally credited with turning back Attila the Hun.

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Pope Gregory the Great

Gregorius Magnus

Pope and Church Administrator

He sent missionaries to convert England, coined the papal title "Servant of the servants of God," and Gregorian chant bears his name.

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Pope John XXIII

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

He convened the Second Vatican Council and issued Pacem in Terris, reshaping the modern Catholic Church.

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Pope John Paul II

Karol Józef Wojtyła

The first Polish pope and one of history's most-traveled popes, credited with a major role in the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

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Traditional Latin Ecclesiastical Wisdom

Sapientia Ecclesiastica Latina

Liturgical & Canonical Tradition

The body of shared Latin liturgical, biblical, and canon-law phrases that make up the Vatican's own distinctive form of proverbial wisdom.

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio

The first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit pope, known for his emphasis on mercy, humility, and care for the poor.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger

A leading Catholic theologian who became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign, in 2013.

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Giovanni Battista Montini

He completed the Second Vatican Council, became the first pope of the modern era to travel widely abroad, and issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae.

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Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli

He led the Catholic Church through the Second World War and defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary in 1950.

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Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci

His 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum founded modern Catholic social teaching on labor and workers' rights.

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Pope John Paul I

Known as "the Smiling Pope," he served the second-shortest papacy in modern history at just 33 days in 1978.

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