Heilige Stoel
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Latin Sancta Sedes (“Holy See”).
The toponym is Attested as Heiligenstoel in 1899. Named as a reference to the Holy See. Originally the name of a farm.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
De Heilige Stoel m (invariable in the case of the Holy See; always with definite article and capitalized)
- the Holy See, Rome (the Vatican) as seat of and metonomy for the papacy and the universal Roman Catholic church which it heads
- A neighborhood of Wijchen, Gelderland, Netherlands