Vatican City, Nov 9, 2024 / 06:00 am. For the first time in over a century, the historic Chair of St. Peter, a wooden throne symbolizing the pope’s magisterial authority, has been removed from ...

Vatican City, Feb 22, 2025 / 11:00 am. Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more than 1,600 years.

Just over 10 years after being founded, the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter has 11,255 faithful, 81 priests, seven seminarians, and 36 parishes and communities across the U.S. and Canada.

The ‘Latin Yankee’ Takes Rome Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, arrives on the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time after the cardinals end the ...

Just beside it, at at 7 p.m. Rome time, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door, or Porta Santa, symbolizing the path to salvation, and entered to begin the traditional midnight Mass at St. Peter's.

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes, houses the remains of approximately 90 of Rome’s popes. The rest are scattered throughout other places of worship in the Vatican, Rome ...

Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

Some Italian media suspect the French president of maneuvering alongside the Catholic movement Sant'Egidio, which was close to the late pope, to push their candidates onto the Chair of Saint Peter.

Instead, he chose St. Mary Major, a basilica on the other side of Rome. It's the first time in more than a century that a pope will be buried outside the Vatican walls.

The informational sign near the chair in St. Peter’s Basilica informs visitors that “shortly after the year 1000, the Cathedra Petri began to be venerated as a relic of the seat used by the ...