Concordat of 1801
The convention between Pius VII and the French government under the First Consul that restored the public exercise of Catholic worship in France, gave the head of state the naming of bishops and left the buyers of church lands undisturbed.
The convention has a preamble and seventeen articles. The government recognises the Catholic religion as that of the great majority of French citizens. The pope accepts a new map of dioceses, the resignation of the existing bishops and nomination of bishops by the First Consul, and undertakes not to disturb the buyers of alienated church lands; the government allows public worship, returns unsold churches and pays the clergy.
When the convention was promulgated in France on 8 April 1802 it was accompanied by the Organic Articles, a French law regulating the church in detail, which Anderson prints as no. 64B. See the French Revolution and the Church.
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- 1790 to 1801, firm date