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- noun Plural form of
Gallican .
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Examples
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So yes, that one worhless, stupid Priest has more certainly absolved you from your sins than the SSPX priests at this point because of what they have decided to do, in running off on their own course like the Anglicans did who, by the way, just decided to be more french than the Gallicans, and pulled the whole thing off.
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Hilary and other Gallicans have been strengthened by the example of Irenaeus, and by his faithful words of reproof and exhortation, to resist Rome, even down to our own times.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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This theory comes into collision with difficulties so serious as to have caused its rejection as well by the majority of Gallicans as by their
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Parliament of Paris to suppress them, and under the combined assaults of the law, the Gallicans, and the sceptics, the practice soon died out.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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If we are to credit these authors, what the Gallicans maintained in 1682 was not a collection of novelties, but a body of beliefs as old as the Church, the discipline of the first centuries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Hefele, after carefully weighing the main arguments of the Gallicans
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Gallicans, signed a protest against this pamphlet which accused them of leanings towards schism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Pope and king by common agreement thus put an end to an episcopal aristocracy such as the Gallicans of the great councils had dreamed of.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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It is advancing towards two not disconnected results: first, it is marking off more and more distinctly the spheres of action of the two powers, "the spiritual and the temporal", as the Gallicans formerly said; secondly, the secular power, while it frees itself from the influence of the spiritual power, confines the latter to a purely religious domain, depriving it gradually of the privileges it enjoyed in the Christian societies of the Middle Ages.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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This was what might be described as an extra-constitutional crisis; and, as the Church has a right in such circumstances to remove reasonable doubt and provide a pope whose claims would be indisputable, even an acephalous council, supported by the body of bishops throughout the world, was competent to meet this altogether exceptional emergency without thereby setting up a precedent that could be erected into a regular constitutional rule, as the Gallicans wrongly imagined.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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