Heilige Stoel

Etymology
Calque of.

The toponym is Attested as Heiligenstoel in 1899. Named as a reference to the. Originally the name of a farm.

Proper noun
(invariable in the case of the Holy See; always with definite article and capitalized)


 * 1) the Holy See, Rome (the Vatican) as seat of and metonomy for the papacy and the universal Roman Catholic church which it heads