The following is a list of flags used in the Vatican City and its predecessor, the Papal States.
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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7 June 1929 – 26 November 2000 | National flag and civil ensign | Two fields divided vertically, yellow field on the staff side and a white field on the other side, which bears the tiara and the keys. | |
26 November 2000 – 7 June 2023 | National flag and civil ensign | Two fields divided vertically, yellow field on the staff side and a white field on the other side, which bears the tiara and the keys. Ratio: 1:1.[1][2][3][4] | |
7 June 2023–present | National flag and civil ensign | Two fields divided vertically, yellow field on the staff side and a white field on the other side, which bears the tiara and the keys. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2005–2013 | Papal pennant | With a yellow band at the hoist and Pope Benedict's personal arms in color in the white fly. | |
2013–present | Papal pennant | With a yellow band at the hoist and Pope Francis's personal arms in color in the white fly. |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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2013–present | Swiss Guard | Papal guard flag of 1914, but with the arms of Pope Francis and Commandant Christoph Graf |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Papal naval ensign | White flag with a version of the coat of arms of the Holy See between the figures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. | ||
1300s | Banner of Pope Boniface VIII | ||
1510s | Banner of Pope Leo X | ||
1520s | |||
1520s | Flag used by papal military strategist Jacopo Pesaro | ||
1540s | Banner of Pope Paul III | ||
1669–1771 | Flag for Papal Ships | Flag with Christ on the cross, St Peter and St Paul. | |
-1808[5][6] | Papal cockade until 1808, de facto state flag[7] | Yellow and Red plain bicolour | |
-1870[8] | Pilot flag, Infantry colours and de-facto civil flag[9] | Yellow and White plain bicolour | |
-1870 | War and proto-national flag[10] flown over Porta Pia during the fall of Rome (1870)[11][12][13] | Yellow and white, with simplified coat of arms of the Holy see in the middle | |
1803–1825 | Flag for Papal Merchant Ships | White | |
1849 | Flag of the Roman Republic | The Italian tricolour using darker colours with the phrase DIO E POPOLO (God and People) in the centre. | |
1825–1870 | Flag for Papal Merchant Ships | Yellow and white. |
vertically divided yellow-white national flag with an emblem on the white stripe featuring two crossed keys and a papal tiara. The flag is square in its proportions.
The Vatican City State flag is square in shape, with yellow and white vertically divided on each side of the flag.
Anticamente la bandiera dello Stato pontificio era giallorossa (o per meglio dire amaranto e rossa, colori derivati dai colori dello stemma della Santa Sede), i due colori tradizionali del Senato e del Popolo romano, che vennero tuttavia sostituiti con il bianco e il giallo nel 1808.
En el pasado, la bandera del Estado pontificio era de color amarillo y granate (o mejor dicho, carmesì y rojo, colores relacionados con el escudo de la Santa Sede), dos colores tradicionales del Senado y del Pueblo romano.
Anticamente la bandiera dello Stato pontificio era giallorossa (o per meglio dire amaranto e rossa, colori derivati dai colori dello stemma della Santa Sede), i due colori tradizionali del Senato e del Popolo romano, che vennero tuttavia sostituiti con il bianco e il giallo nel 1808, allorché Pio VII