|regeringsvorm = Kerklike;<ref name="factbook">{{en}} {{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vt.html |title=Holy See (Vatican City) |accessdateaccess-date=27 Julie 2014 |work=CIA—The World Factbook |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601021839/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vt.html |archive-date=1 Junie 2020 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />priesterlike-monargiese;<ref name=pages>{{en}} {{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-pages.com/vatican/vatican_city.asp |title=Vatican City |publisher=Catholic-Pages.com |accessdate=27 Julie 2014}}</ref><br />absolute monargie;<ref>{{en}} {{cite web |url=http://www.vaticanstate.va/EN/State_and_Government/StateDepartments/index.htm |title=Internet portal of Vatican City State |publisher=Vatikaanstad |accessdateaccess-date=27 Julie 2014 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303214103/http://www.vaticanstate.va/EN/State_and_Government/StateDepartments/index.htm |archive-date=3 Maart 2013 |url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />elektiewe monargie;<ref>{{en}} [http://books.google.com/books?id=M3A-xgf1yM4C&pg=PA1009 Gerhard Robbers, ''Encyclopedia of World Constitutions''], Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8160-6078-8, bl. 1009</ref><br />elektiewe teokrasie.<ref>{{en}} Nick Megoran, [http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nick.megoran/pdf/theocracy.pdf "Theocracy" in ''International Encyclopedia of Human Geography''], vol. 11, Elsevier 2009 ISBN 978-0-08-044911-1, bl. 226</ref>
|leiertitels = <br /><br /><br /><br />• Soewerein<br />• Staatsekretaris<br />• President van die regering
|leiername = [[Pous]] [[Pous Franciskus|Franciskus]]<br />[[Pietro Parolin]]<br />[[ Giuseppe Bertello]]<ref>{{it}} {{cite web |title=Governorate |url=http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/organigramma/governatorato.html |publisher=Vaticanstate.va |accessdateaccess-date=27 Julie 2014 |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528130301/http://www.vaticanstate.va:80/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/organigramma/governatorato.html |archive-date=28 Mei 2019 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
