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papal bull

type of letters patent or charter issued by a Pope of the Catholic Church
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papal bull
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Summary

papal bull ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,323 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Named after: bullying[2]
  • Subclass of: bull[3], literary work[4], papal document[5], proclamation[6]
  • Commons category: Papal bulls[7]
  • Has part(s): Indication bull[8], circumscription bull[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Papal bulls[10]
  • Described by source: Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
  • Different from: Bulla Felix[15]
  • Has list: list of papal bulls[16]
  • P14483: b/bula-pontificia[17]
  • P14541: 4FfvyM[18]

Why It Matters

papal bull has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

literary work

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · ~2026-52309-31 · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 58
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: bullying"
  2. 4w ago · ~2026-49703-87 · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → bullying
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: bullying"
  3. 14w ago · Ldhank · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → bull, literary work, papal document +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: proclamation"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4FfvyM
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 20w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → b/bula-pontificia
    Described by source → Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +1
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; remove redundant reference URL (P854) ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  6. 20w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → b/bula-pontificia
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: b/bula-papal, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779859433286"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → list of papal bulls
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 90938
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1888136
    Different from → Bulla Felix
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007292687605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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