# Vaticanology

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. the study of the politics, decisions and functioning of the Vatican

## Etymology
From Vatican + -ology, coined by British Catholic theologian Charles Davis in 1957 in analogy to Kremlinology.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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