Concordat of 1801

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The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleonic France and the Papacy that reestablished the Catholic Church’s position in France after the Revolution while keeping it under strong state control.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf agreement between state and church
concordat
treaty
appliesTo metropolitan France
approvedBy Corps législatif of France
Pope Pius VII
cameIntoForce 1802
category 1801 in France
Catholic Church in France
Napoleon I of France
Treaties of the First French Republic
Treaties of the Holy See
confirmed secularization of Church lands confiscated during the French Revolution
country France
dateSigned 1801-07-15
effect ended the dechristianization policies of the French Revolution
normalized relations between France and the Papacy
placed the Catholic Church under strong control of the French state
restored public status of the Catholic Church in France
field church–state relations
religious policy
followedBy Organic Articles of 1802
historicalPeriod post-Revolutionary France
inForceUntil 1905
language French
Latin
legacy model for later concordats between states and the Holy See
negotiatedBy Napoleon Bonaparte
Pope Pius VII
placeSigned Paris
provided papal institution of bishops nominated by the French government
reorganization of French dioceses
requirement that bishops swear loyalty to the French state
state control over nomination of bishops
state payment of salaries to Catholic clergy
purpose reestablish the Catholic Church in France after the French Revolution
regulate relations between the French state and the Catholic Church
relatedTo French Revolution
Gallicanism
Napoleonic era
signatory French First Republic
Holy See
Papacy
signedUnder Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte
statedReligionStatus Catholicism recognized as the religion of the majority of French citizens
supersededBy French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State of 1905
yearSigned 1801


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