Chapter 3 of the dogmatic constitution on the Church of Vatican Council I (Pastor aeternus) is the principal document of the Magisterium about the content and nature of the primatial power of the Roman Pontiff.

Dei Filius is the incipit of the dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Catholic faith, which was adopted unanimously on 24 April 1870.

The forms dogmatic constitution and pastoral constitution are titles sometimes used to be more descriptive as to the document's purpose.

Lumen Gentium, the dogmatic constitution derived from Vatican II in 1964, declared that the Lord had consecrated Mary as "Queen of the universe", reflecting the contemporary expansion of knowledge regarding outer space.

Dei Filius was a dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Roman Catholic faith.

This dogmatic constitution was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964, following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,151 to 5.

In the final vote on 18 November only 5 of the over 2200 participants voted against the dogmatic constitution as a whole.

The best known such nota praevia is the nota explicativa praevia (preliminary note of explanation) of 16 November 1964, which accompanies the text of the Second Vatican Council's dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium.

On 24 April 1870, the dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith Dei Filius was adopted unanimously.

That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church, yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this 'dogmatic constitution'.