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Holy See see Vatican City .

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Holy See. The term commonly denotes the Papacy.

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Holy see. A legal entity comprising the pope and his curia, recognized in international law as a sovereign body.

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