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Unitatis Redintegratio is the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism. It was passed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity," and is from the first line of the decree, as is customary with major Catholic documents (see incipit). (The full text in English is available from the Holy See's website.)

Contents

The numbers given correspond to the section numbers within the text.

  1. Introduction (1)
  2. Catholic Principles on Ecumenism (2-4)
  3. The Practice of Ecumenism (5-12)
  4. Churches and Ecclesial Communities Separated from the Roman Apostolic See (13-24)
    1. The Special Consideration of the Eastern Churches (14-18)
    2. Separated Churches and Ecclesial Communities in the West (19-24)

Anglican communion controversy

Apostolicae Curae is the title of a papal bull, issued in 1896 by Pope Leo XIII, declaring all Anglican ordinations to be "absolutely null and utterly void". Unitatis Redintegratio does not mention this bull because many Anglican bishops had been re-ordained by Old Catholic bishops and their status was thought to have been settled. However, the Church had to re-assert the validity of Apostolicae Curae during the papacy of John Paul II because of new doctrinal and ecclesiological questions discussed in the magisterial documents Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Ad Tuendam Fidem and Dominus Iesus.

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