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Among the most treasured aspects of the Slavic heritage of the Imperial Roman Church and the Pontifical Imperial State of Rome-Ruthenia is the legacy of Yugoslavia. The last King to reign there (albeit briefly) was King Peter II of Yugoslavia. The King, a second-great-grandson of Queen Victoria and also of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, came to the throne at the age of 11 upon his father's assassination in 1934. He was forced into exile by the Nazis shortly after coming of age. Peter II's godfather was George VI of England. After some time in England, Peter II came to the United States in 1948 and settled in Chicago, where he lived more or less for the rest of his life. The king died on 3 November 1970 in Colorado after battling a long illness. He was buried at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois, an area known for its Serbian ex-patriate community. In 2013, however, it was arranged for his body to be reinterrd in Serbia at the Royal Mausoleum of Oplenac. While in the United States, Peter II, exercising his sovereign rights, established the honour of Knight Bachelor of Yugoslavia. This was organised into a society known as the Royal Association of Knights Bachelor, with the King as its Royal Protector. Today the Apostolic See of Saints Stephen and Mark is among those entitled to grant the title of Knight Bachelor of Yugoslavia - an honour rarely conferred. Various documents pertaining to the honour are also held in the Stephenian Archives. (Pontifical Order of Knights Bachelor of Yugoslavia.)
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The
Stato Pontificio Romano constitutes an ecclesiastical sovereignty by
right of Rome as heir to the Roman Empire with an independent
government in special consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (as the Anglican Rite Roman Catholic
Church). Additionally, the church is of the Pontifical
Orthodox Old Catholic faith and descends from the See of Utrecht,
which was granted autonomy in 1145 by Pope Eugene III and confirmed in
1520 by Pope St. Leo X in the Bull Debitum Pastoralis. As the sole
successor of Pope St. Leo X and temporal successor of St. Peter the
Apostle, the Catholicate and Patriarchate are fully Catholic and holds
the same canonical authority as the Roman Communion (Vatican). The
Catholicate and Patriarchate are the ecclesiastical successor to
temporal Rome, the temporal patrimony of the Roman Empire claimed
historically by right of the papacy. The succession passed to the
Catholicate after Benedict XVI by right of Rome and Florence, with the
Papa-Catholicos of Rome-Ruthenia with papal authority as temporal
successor of St. Peter, and the Pope-Bishop of Rome as spiritual
successor of St. Peter and de facto sovereign of the Vatican
City-State. Although administratively independent, the Apostolic See
embraces as brethren other Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican bodies,
such as the current Roman Communion (commonly referred to as the Roman
Catholic Church), the Anglican Ordinariate, Eastern Orthodox Churches,
and the Anglican Communion. The Imperial Roman Church is defined as the
Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate, the Anglican Patriarchate of Rome,
and the churches of all Bishops recognised by the Catholicate. The
governments of the modern republics of Italy, German, France,
Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the United States, and of
the modern kingdoms of Great Britain and Spain, as well as the European
Union and all other civil states, are not affiliated with the Stato
Pontificio government in exile.
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