Organic Articles of 1802

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The Organic Articles of 1802 were a set of French laws issued under Napoleon that regulated the public practice and administration of Catholicism and Protestantism in France, effectively limiting the authority granted to the Church by the Concordat of 1801.


Statements (41)
Predicate Object
instanceOf French law
religious regulation
affects French bishops
French parish clergy
Lutheran Church in France
Reformed Church of France
aimsTo control public worship
subordinate Church to the State
appliesTo Catholic Church in France
Protestant churches in France
characterizedAs instrument of state control over religion
country France
dateIssued 1802
enactedBy French state
follows Concordat of 1801
historicalPeriod Napoleonic era
influencedBy Gallican traditions of church–state relations
inForceDuring early 19th century
issuedUnder Consulate (France)
language French
legalStatus statutory law
legalSystem French civil law
limits authority granted by the Concordat of 1801
authority of the Catholic Church in France
partOf Napoleonic religious settlement
precedes later 19th‑century French secularization laws
promulgatedBy Napoleon Bonaparte
regulates administration of Catholicism in France
administration of Protestantism in France
public practice of religion in France
relatedTo Concordat of 1801
Gallicanism
religiousPolicyOf First French Empire
French Consulate
scope metropolitan France
subjectMatter administration of dioceses
church–state relations
organization of public worship
religious freedom regulation
status of Protestant denominations
typeOfRegulation unilateral state regulation of churches

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Concordat of 1801
followedBy

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