Postconciliar

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In or of the period following an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.

    "This, as Lebedeff reminds his readers, is no new theory: it was advanced in the last century by Franzelin; while Vincenzi argues that the Creed is a post-Conciliar addition to the book made not by the author, but by another and a less skilful hand."

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"This, as Lebedeff reminds his readers, is no new theory: it was advanced in the last century by Franzelin; while Vincenzi argues that the Creed is a post-Conciliar addition to the book made not by the author, but by another and a less skilful hand."

Etymology

From post- + conciliar.

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