Concordat of 1801
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Sought national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France, with most of its civil status restored.
This resolved the hostility of devout French Catholics against the revolutionary state. It did not restore the vast church lands and endowments that had been seized upon during the revolution and sold off. Catholic clergy returned from exile, or from hiding, and resumed their traditional positions in their traditional churches. Very few parishes continued to employ the priests who had accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of the Revolutionary regime.
While the Concordat restored much power to the papacy, the balance of church-state relations tilted firmly in Napoleon's favour. He selected the bishops and supervised church finances.
It remained in effect until 1905.
Subjects Who or What treaty with?
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Pope Pius VII (Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti) Pope of the Roman ...
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Napoléon Bonaparte Emperor of the Fre...
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