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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 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 ...
The Pope released him from the ban of excommunication in the Concordat of 1801, which also revoked the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Talleyrand was instrumental in the completion of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. He wanted Napoleon to keep peace afterwards, as he thought France had reached its maximum expansion.
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.
He resigned the diocese in 1801, at the request of Pope Pius VII, who had entered into the Concordat of 1801 with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. [2] The Concordat called for the reorganization of the episcopate in France, and the Pope had asked all bishops, pre- and post- Revolutionary, to resign in order to allow him a free hand.
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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 ...