2014 in Vatican City

Incumbents

• Pope - Francis

  Events

January

• 5 January - 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople. An international trip for Pope Francis is announced for the Holy Land to meet Bartholomew I.
• 12 January - Announcement of the creation of 19 new cardinals: 16 eligible to vote in future papal conclaves and 3 non-voting cardinals.

  February

• 17–19 February - The 3rd meeting of the Council of Cardinal Advisers. This council was the first attended by Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
• 22 February - 19 new cardinals elevated by Pope Francis in the presence of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
• 24 February - Establishment of the Secretariat for the Economy.

  March

• 8 March - The nomination for five years of the 15 members of the Secretariat for the Economy.
• 22 March - Creation of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

  April

• 3 April - The equivalent canonizations of José de Anchieta, Marie of the Incarnation and Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval.
• 27 April - Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in the presence of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
• 28–30 April - The 4th meeting of the Council of Cardinal Advisers.

  May

June

July

• 1–4 July - The 5th meeting of the Council of Cardinal Advisers.

  August

September

October

• 5–19 October - Extraordinary General Synod of Bishops on the topic of the pastoral challenges to the family.
• 19 October - Beatification of Pope Paul VI

  November

• 23 November - The canonization of Giovanni Antonio Farina, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Ludovico of Casoria, Nicholas Longobardi, Amato Ronconi and Euphrasia Eluvathingal.

  December

• 20 December - nomination of Jean-Louis Tauran as vice-camerlengo of the Roman Catholic church

  Deaths