title: 2014 in Vatican City
text: # 2014 in Vatican City
  
  Events from the year 2014 in Vatican City.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Sovereign Pontiff (Pope): 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.
  
  ### July
  
  * 1–4 July – The 5th meeting of the Council of Cardinal Advisers.
  
  ### September
  
  * 15–17 September – The 6th meeting of the Council of Cardinal Advisers.
  
  ### 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.
  