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Concordat with France
The Concordat of 11 June 1817 was a
concordat between the
kingdom of France and the
Holy See , signed on 11 June 1817. Not having been validated, it never came into force in France and so the country remained under the regime outlined in the
Concordat of 1801 until the
1905 law on the Separation of the Churches and the State .
Representatives
Representing
Pope Pius VII was Cardinal
Ercole Consalvi , the papal Secretary of State. He had already negotiated the 1801 Concordat, and was designated the
plenipotentiary for the 1817 negotiations. King
Louis XVIII of France chose his favorite, the Ambassador to Rome, the
Comte de Blacas , who had previously served as the
Prime Minister of France , to negotiate the Concordat of 1817.
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The Concordat's introduction (1st article) was a repetition of that of the
Concordat of Bologna , but the other articles laid down restrictions on this "re-establishment" of the Concordat of Bologna.
A revised ecclesiastical geography
One of the accord's objectives was to increase the number of
dioceses in France. Another important article (article 4) stipulated that the dioceses in the
kingdom of France suppressed by the
bull of the Holy See of 29 November 1801 were to be re-established in such a number as both sides would agree on as the most advantageous for the good of religion .
Organisation of dioceses envisaged by the French Concordat of 1817
Ecclesiastical provinces (*)
Dioceses (**)
Territory
Aix, with the title of Embrun
Aix-en-Provence
Bouches-du-Rhône (
Arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence )
Digne
Basses-Alpes
Fréjus
Var
Gap
Hautes-Alpes
Albi
Albi
Tarn (arrondissements of
Albi and of
Gaillac )
Cahors
Lot
Castres
Tarn (arrondissements of
Castres and of
Lavaur )
Mende
Lozère
Rodez
Aveyron
Arles
Ajaccio
Corsica
Arles
Bouches-du-Rhône (
arrondissement of Arles )
Marseille
Bouches-du-Rhône (
arrondissement of Marseille )
Auch
Aire
Landes
Auch
Gers
Bayonne
Basses-Pyrénées
Tarbes
Hautes-Pyrénées
Avignon
Avignon
Vaucluse (arrondissements of
Apt and of
Avignon )
Orange
Vaucluse (arrondissements of
Carpentras and of
Orange )
Besançon
Belley
Ain
Besançon
Doubs ,
Haute-Saône
Metz
Moselle
Nancy
Meurthe
Saint-Dié
Vosges
Strasbourg
Bas-Rhin ,
Haut-Rhin
Verdun
Meuse
Bordeaux
Agen
Lot-et-Garonne
Angoulême
Charente
Bordeaux
Gironde
La Rochelle
Charente-Inférieure
Luçon
Vendée
Périgueux
Dordogne
Poitiers
Vienne and
Deux-Sèvres
Bourges
Bourges
Cher and
Indre
Clermont
Puy-de-Dôme
Le Puy
Haute-Loire
Limoges
Creuse and
Haute-Vienne
Saint-Flour
Cantal
Tulle
Corrèze
Cambrai
Arras
Pas-de-Calais (arrondissements of
Arras , of
Béthune and of
Saint-Pol )
Boulogne
Pas-de-Calais (arrondissements of
Boulogne , of
Montreuil and of
Saint-Omer )
Cambrai
Nord
Lyon
Autun
Saône-et-Loire (arrondissements of
Autun and of
Charolles )
Chalon-sur-Saône
Saône-et-Loire (arrondissements of
Chalon , of
Louhans and of
Mâcon )
Dijon
Côte-d'Or
Langres
Haute-Marne
Lyon
Rhône and
Loire
Saint-Claude
Jura
Narbonne
Béziers
Hérault (arrondissements of
Béziers and of
Saint-Pons )
Carcassonne
Aude (arrondissement of
Castelnaudary and, in the
arrondissement of Carcassonne , the cantons of
Alzonne , of
Capendu , of Carcassonne 1 & 2, of
Conques , of the
Mas-Cabardès , of
Peyriac and of
Saissac )
Montpellier
Hérault (arrondissements of
Lodève and of
Montpellier )
Narbonne
Auof (arrondissements of
Limoux and of
Narbonne and, in the arrondissement of Carcassonne, the cantons of
Lagrasse ,
Mouthoumet and of
Tuchan )
Nîmes
Gard
Perpignan
Pyrénées-Orientales
Paris
Blois
Loir-et-Cher
Chartres
Eure-et-Loir
Meaux
Seine-et-Marne
Orléans
Loiret
Paris
Seine
Versailles
Seine-et-Oise
Reims
Amiens
Somme
Beauvais
Oise (arrondissements of
Beauvais and of
Senlis )
Châlons-sur-Marne
Marne (arrondissements of
Châlons-sur-Marne , of
Épernay , of
Sainte-Menehould and of
Vitry )
Laon
Aisne (arrondissements of
Laon , of
Saint-Quentin and of
Vervins )
Noyon
Oise (arrondissements of
Clermont and of
Compiègne )
Reims
Ardennes and Marne (
Arrondissement of Reims )
Soissons
Aisne (arrondissements of
Château-Thierry and of
Soissons )
Rouen
Bayeux
Calvados
Coutances
Manche
Évreux
Eure
Rouen
Seine-Inférieure
Sées
Orne
Sens
Auxerre
Yonne (arrondissements of
Auxerre , of
Avallon and of
Tonnerre )
Moulins
Allier
Nevers
Nièvre
Sens
Yonne (arrondissements of
Joigny and of
Sens )
Troyes
Aube
Toulouse
Montauban
Tarn-et-Garonne
Pamiers
Ariège
Toulouse
Haute-Garonne
Tours
Angers
Maine-et-Loire
Le Mans
Mayenne ,
Sarthe
Nantes
Loire-Inférieure
Quimper
Finistère
Rennes
Ille-et-Vilaine (arrondissements of
Montfort , of
Redon , of
Rennes and of
Vitré )
Saint-Brieuc
Côtes-du-Nord
Saint-Malo
Ille-et-Vilaine (arrondissements of
Fougères and of
Saint-Malo )
Vannes
Morbihan
Tours
Indre-et-Loire
Vienne
Grenoble
Isère (arrondissements of
Grenoble and of
Saint-Marcelin )
Valence
Drôme
Vienne
Isère (arrondissements of
La Tour-du-Pin and of
Vienne )
Viviers
Ardèche
(*)In italics, dioceses elevated to the rank of archdioceses.
(**)In bold, dioceses and archdioceses that were foreseen to be created or re-established. Not all of them were.
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