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concordat

Agreement regulating relations between the papacy and a secular government, for example, that for France between Pius VII and the emperor Napoleon, which lasted from 1801 to 1905; Mussolini's concordat, which lasted from 1929 to 1978 and safeguarded the position of the church in Italy; and one of 1984 in Italy in which Roman Catholicism ceased to be the Italian state religion.



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For the hierarchy, the ecumenical movement is necessarily concerned with concordats and theological treaty making.
A larger sense of church by Johnson, Luke Timothy / Commonweal
In fact, I've seen enough of what these good and well-meaning people do as they work on concordats and issue declarations that I don't need to wonder much.
Why can't we taste and see? Ecumenical progress over the past half ... by Marty, Martin E. / U.S. Catholic
The primary objective of these relations is to defend freedom of worship, sometimes recognized in individual countries through concordats or Church-state agreements.
Purpose of Vatican diplomatic activity by Catholic Insight
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