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¶ 816

"The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, Entrusted to Peter's pastoral Care, comMissioning him and the other Apostles to extend and rule it.... This Church, constituted and organized as a Society in the present world, subsists in (subsistit in) in) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in Communion with him." 267

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