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The Lateran Treaties is the common designation for three agreements made in 1929 between the Kingdom Of Italy and the Papacy . The treaties, or Concordat s, settled the question of the relationship between Italy and the Holy See . Known as the '''Roman Question''', this problem had arisen in 1870 when the newly formed kingdom of Italy annexed the Papal States . In 1871 the Italian government guaranteed to Pope Pius IX and his successors the use of the Vatican and the Lateran Palace s and a yearly income of 3,250,000 Lire as Indemnity for the loss of Sovereignty and territory. The Church, claiming the necessity for independence of any political power in its exercise of spiritual jurisdiction, refused to accept this settlement, and the popes thereafter considered themselves prisoners of the Vatican , a small, limited area inside Rome.


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Negotiations for the settlement of the Roman Question began in 1926 between the government of Italy and the Holy See, and in 1929 they culminated in the agreements of the Lateran Treaty, signed for King Victor Emmanuel III Of Italy by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Cardinal Gasparri , Cardinal Secretary Of State . The agreements included a political treaty, which created the state of the Vatican City and guaranteed full and independent sovereignty to the Holy See . The pope was pledged to perpetual Neutrality in International Relations and to abstention from mediation to a controversy except when specifically requested by all parties. Also agreed on were a concordat establishing Roman Catholicism as the religion of Italy, and a financial arrangement awarding money to the Holy See in settlement of all its claims against Italy arising from the loss of temporal power in 1870 .

In 1984 a revised treaty was signed which, among other things, ended the Church's status as the state-supported religion of Italy.


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