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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.
By the Concordat of 1801, the Diocese of Strasbourg became a public-law corporation of cult (French: établissement public du culte) and the diocesan ambit of Strasbourg was redrawn and all its areas east of the river Rhine were redeployed, forming a part of the Archdiocese of Freiburg since 1821.
Concordat of 1801 (France) Concordat of 11 June 1817 (France) Concordat of 24 October 1817 (Bavaria) Concordat of 16 February 1818 (Naples) 1847 Agreement between the Holy See and Russia; Concordat of 1851 (Spain) Concordat of 1854 (Guatemala) Concordat of 1887 (Colombia) [2]
The first concordat dates from 1098, and from then to the beginning of the First World War the Holy See signed 74 concordats. [1] Due to the substantial remapping of Europe that took place after the war, new concordats with legal successor states were necessary. [1] The post-World War I era saw the greatest proliferation of concordats in ...
When Pope Pius VII decided that the French bishops should tender their resignation in order to facilitate the conclusion of the Concordat of 1801, he was the first to comply, on 21 September 1801, [11] setting the example which exercised great influence over the other bishops, since he was the senior bishop in the French hierarchy.
However, after Napoleon seized control of the government in late 1799, France entered into year-long negotiations with new Pope Pius VII, resulting in the Concordat of 1801. This formally ended the dechristianization period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French state.
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 ...
15 July – Concordat of 1801, agreement signed between France and Pope Pius VII that reaffirms the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restores some of its civil status. 17 August – Siege of Alexandria by the British begins. 2 September – Siege of Alexandria ends in British victory.