Vatican City

Vatican City

Vatican City ranks 221st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Solomon Islands, Guam, and Åland Islands. Memorable people born in present day Vatican City include Robert Bellarmine, Lucius Junius Brutus, and Horatius Cocles. Memorable people who died in Vatican City include Pope Francis, Saint Peter, and Pope Benedict XVI. Vatican City has been the birth place of many politicians, and physicians and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians.

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, often shortened as the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign state and city-state. It is an enclave within Rome, seat of the Catholic Church, and serves as the administrative centre of the Catholic Church. It became independent from the Kingdom of Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty. Vatican City is governed by the See of Rome, commonly known as the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity under international law, which maintains its temporal power, governance, diplomacy, and spiritual independence. Vatican is also used as a metonym for the Holy See, which is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City, comprising the pope and the Roman Curia. Read more on Wikipedia