Editing Pope Paul VI (section)

===Reforms of papal ceremony===
[[File:Pope Paul VI portrait.jpg|thumb|left|One of the first official photographs of Paul VI taken in 1963<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photograph of Pope Paul VI |url=https://jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/17108/photograph-of-pope-paul-vi |access-date=4 April 2023 |website=jfk.artifacts.archives.gov |publisher=The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Artifact Collection |language=en |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404114442/https://jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/17108/photograph-of-pope-paul-vi |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
Paul VI did away with much of the papacy's regal splendor. [[Coronation of Pope Paul VI|His coronation]] on 30 June 1963 was the last [[papal coronation|such ceremony]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/paul-vi-during-the-coronation-to-pontiff-vaticanos-city-30-news-photo/152217764|title=Paul VI during the coronation to Pontiff. Vaticano's City, 30 june...|website=Getty Images|date=15 September 2012 |access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=22 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522214348/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/paul-vi-during-the-coronation-to-pontiff-vaticanos-city-30-news-photo/152217764|url-status=live}}</ref> his successor [[Pope John Paul I]] substituted an [[papal inauguration|inauguration]] (which Paul had substantially modified, but which he left mandatory in his 1975 [[apostolic constitution]] ''[[Romano Pontifici Eligendo]]''). At his coronation, Paul wore a [[papal tiara|tiara]] presented by the Archdiocese of Milan. Near the end of the third session of the [[Second Vatican Council]] in 1964, Paul VI descended the steps of the papal throne in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] and ascended the altar, on which he laid the tiara as a sign of the renunciation of human glory and power in keeping with the innovative spirit of the council. It was announced that the tiara would be sold for charity.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Doty|first1=Robert C.|title=Pope Paul Donates His Jeweled Tiara To Poor of World|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/14/pope-paul-donates-his-jeweled-tiara-to-poor-of-world.html|access-date=27 April 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 November 1964|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517165209/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/14/pope-paul-donates-his-jeweled-tiara-to-poor-of-world.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The purchasers arranged for it to be displayed as a gift to American Catholics in the crypt of the [[Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception]] in Washington, D.C.

In 1968, with the [[motu proprio]] ''[[Pontificalis Domus]]'', he discontinued most of the ceremonial functions of the old [[Papal nobility]] at the court (reorganized as the [[Papal household|household]]), save for the [[Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne]]. He also abolished the [[Palatine Guard]] and the [[Noble Guard (Vatican)|Noble Guard]], leaving the Pontifical [[Swiss Guard]] as the sole military order of the Vatican.