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Sede vacante
Sede vacante
is an expression, used in the
canon law
of the
Catholic Church
, that refers to the vacancy of the
episcopal see
of a
particular church
. It is
Latin
for "the seat being vacant" (the
ablative absolute
of
sedes vacans
"vacant seat", or the
Italian
for the same term), the seat in question being the
cathedra
of the particular church.
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