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{{Short description|Invited expert at a church council}}
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'''''Peritus''''' ([[Social:Latin|Latin]] for "expert") is the title given to Roman Catholic theologians attending an [[Religion:Ecumenical council|ecumenical council]] to give advice. At the Second Vatican Council, some ''periti'' (the plural form) accompanied individual bishops or groups of bishops from various countries. Others were formally appointed advisers to the whole council.{{cn|date=July 2017}}

Cardinal Yves Congar served as a consultant to the council upon the invitation of Pope John XXIII, but was hired as personal and expert theologian (peritus) at the council to Bishop Jean-Julien Weber of Strasbourg. This allowed him to attend all the general sessions and participate in discussions of any commission to which he was invited.<ref>{{cite news|last=Woodrow |first=Alain |title=Diary of an insider |url=http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/3940 |access-date=4 November 2013 |newspaper=The Tablet |date=26 October 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201102857/http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/3940 |archive-date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref>

The ''periti'' of Vatican II,<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiser |first=François |title=Les experts au concile Vatican II : socio-histoire d'un affrontement culturel à l'intérieur du champ religieux catholique|url=http://www.sudoc.fr/203666054 |access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> although their official status designates them as at the service of the council, were most often at the service of the currents which clashed at the council, either on the side of a reform of the church (acceptance of religious freedom, revision of church–state relations, reassessment of relations with other religions), or on the side of the continuation of a clash of Catholicism with the other institutions and currents of society, in the wake of the councils of Trent and Vatican I (especially for the experts close to Coetus Internationalis Patrum<ref>{{cite news|last=Roy-Lysencourt |first=Philippe |title=	Le Coetus internationalis Patrum, un groupe d'opposants au sein du Concile Vatican II|url=http://www.sudoc.fr/159752655 |access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref>).

As for the US, there were 86 periti altogether during the four sessions of the council.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiser |first=François |title=The Periti of the United States and the Second Vatican Council: Prosopography of a Group of Theologians|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/499680/pdf |access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref>

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