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Descriptor English: Catholicism
Descriptor Spanish: Catolicismo
Descriptor catolicismo
Scope note: Fe cristiana, práctica religiosa, o sistema de la Iglesia Católica, específicamente la Católica Romana, la iglesia cristiana que se caracteriza por la estructura jerárquica de obispos y sacerdotes en la que la autoridad disciplinaria y doctrinal procede de la sucesión apostólica, con el papa como cabeza del colegio episcopal. (Traducción libre del original: Webster, 3d ed; American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Catolicismo
Descriptor French: Catholicisme
Entry term(s): Catholic, Roman
Catholicism, Roman
Catholics, Roman
Ethic, Roman Catholic
Ethics, Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Ethic
Roman Catholic Ethics
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholics
Tree number(s): K01.844.188.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002410
Scope note: The Christian faith, practice, or system of the Catholic Church, specifically the Roman Catholic, the Christian church that is characterized by a hierarchic structure of bishops and priests in which doctrinal and disciplinary authority are dependent upon apostolic succession, with the pope as head of the episcopal college. (From Webster, 3d ed; American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)
Annotation: IM; specify geog if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
PX psychology
DeCS ID: 2449
Unique ID: D002410
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Catholicism - Preferred
Concept UI M0003677
Scope note The Christian faith, practice, or system of the Catholic Church, specifically the Roman Catholic, the Christian church that is characterized by a hierarchic structure of bishops and priests in which doctrinal and disciplinary authority are dependent upon apostolic succession, with the pope as head of the episcopal college. (From Webster, 3d ed; American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)
Preferred term Catholicism
Entry term(s) Catholicism, Roman
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholics - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0003679
Preferred term Roman Catholics
Entry term(s) Catholic, Roman
Catholics, Roman
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Ethics - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0003678
Preferred term Roman Catholic Ethics
Entry term(s) Ethic, Roman Catholic
Ethics, Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Ethic



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