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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a concordat (as between Church and State)

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  • He alleged that the civil marriage of Napoleon and Josephine had been annulled by the decree of the Senate, that by the concordatory laws (lois concordataires) the religious marriage ought to follow the civil, and that the Church could not now ask two parties who were no longer civilly married to repair the defects of form in their religious marriage.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In this pamphlet Villefranche struck at the policy which, according to a captious formula, was in favour of the strict application of the Concordat, and which, in fact, resulted in despoiling the Church of certain of its rights on the pretext that they were not explicitly contained in the concordatory text.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1905 at the end of the concordatory regime there were

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1905 (the last year of the concordatory regime), the Diocese of Le Mans had a population of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1905 at the end of the concordatory period the Diocese of Paris had 3,599,870 inhabitants, 38 parishes, 104 succursales, 7 vicariates, formerly remunerated by the State.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1905 (the last year of the concordatory regime) the diocese numbered 182,112 inhabitants, 2 archidiaconates, 3 archipresbyterates, 19 deaneries,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • + (2) public worship — on this point Le Play devotes some beautiful passages to the rôle of the Catholic clergy in the United States and in Canada (which he calls the model nation of our time), expresses his fear that the concordatory regime in France will produce a Church of bureaucrats, and dreams of a liberty such as exists in America for the Church of France;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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