A: There are four Marian dogmas:

• 1) Divine Motherhood - Council of Ephesus 431
  
• 2) Mary's Virginity
  a) Virginal Conception through the Spirit - Baptismal symbols since third century.
  b) Perpetual Virginity (virginal birth and no other children) - Baptismal symbols since fourth century (first in eastern church)
  
• 3) Immaculate Conception (Mary's freedom from original sin) - Pius IX, 1854
  
• 4) Mary's Assumption (body and soul) into heaven - Pius XII, 1950

  
  

  For the answers to other questions regarding the four individual Marian dogmas, click on the following:
  Divine Motherhood
  Virginity
  Written Sources of Mary's Virginity
  Immaculate Conception
  Development of Immaculate Conception Dogma
  Assumption
  

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