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Queen of Heaven
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Queen of Heaven
Queen of Heaven
is a title given to the
Virgin Mary
by
Christians
mainly of the
Roman Catholic Church
, and also, to some extent, in
Eastern Orthodoxy
and
Anglicanism
. The title is a consequence of the
First Council of Ephesus
in the fifth century, in which the Virgin Mary was proclaimed "
theotokos
", a title rendered in Latin as
Mater Dei
, in English "
Mother of God
".
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