Word: concordats
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Dates: during 1906-1906
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...tithes due to the church were suppressed and its estates confiscated. Then the civil constitution for clergy, providing for the payment of church officers out of state funds was passed, but rejected by the Church. With the Revolution came the secularization of church properties, lasting until Napoleon's Concordat, which provided that mandates of the Pope should have no effect without the consent of the King. Although by this act the bishops could name the parish clergy with the consent of the government, the freedom of the Church was greatly diminished...
January 17.-"The Church and State in France from the Concordat...