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Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, by Pierre Joseph Célestin François. The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris. [1] It remained in effect until 1905, except in Alsace–Lorraine, where it remains in force.
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restored some of its civil status. While the Concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it largely favoured the interests of the French state; the balance of church-state relations ...
The Concordat was reached on July 15, 1801, and it was made widely known the following Easter. [20] [21] The negotiators were Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, and representatives of the Papacy and, such as it remained, the nonjuring clergy. [21] The Concordat was the organic act of the Roman Catholic Church in France for a century ...
The Concordat of 1801, drawn up not in the Catholic Church's interest but in that of his own policy, by giving satisfaction to the religious feeling of the country, allowed him to put down the constitutional democratic Church, to rally round him the consciences of the peasants, and above all to deprive the royalists of their best weapon.
Treaties that were either written and opened for signature in the year 1801, or entered into force in 1801. 1796; 1797; ... Concordat of 1801; F. Treaty of Florence ...
The Concordat was presented to Pope Pius VII for a signature of approval, along with Napoleon’s attachment of the Organic Articles, which somewhat abates parts of the Concordat. The Pope protested against the Organic Articles, saying he had no knowledge of Napoleon's attachment at the time of the agreement, but the protest was in vain ...
Consalvi immediately left for France, where he was able to negotiate the Concordat of 1801 with the First Consul Napoleon. [8] While not effecting a return to the old Christian order, the treaty did provide certain civil guarantees to the Church, acknowledging "the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion" as that of the "majority of French ...
The Petite Église (French pronunciation: [pətit eɡliz], "Little Church"; Dutch: Stevenisten, lit. 'Stevenists') was a group of French and Belgian Roman Catholics who separated from the Catholic Church in France following the Concordat of 1801 between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon Bonaparte.