Fontainebleau Concordat

The Fontainebleau Concordat was a state church law treaty that Napoleon I concluded with Pope Pius VII on January 25, 1813 in Fontainebleau . The contract was canceled a little later by the Pope.

This was preceded by the Concordat of 1801 , with which Napoleon - at that time still the first consul - reorganized France's relations with the Catholic Church .

The main content of the treaty, which was only viewed as a concordat by the French , were provisions for the confirmation of the French bishops. It also contained concessions in favor of the Church to the Concordat of 1801.

As Napoleonic rule ended soon afterwards, the treaty was never actually carried out. As early as March 24, 1813, the Pope, who in any case saw the agreement only as a preliminary article , withdrew his consent to the cardinals who were meeting in Fontainebleau.

literature

• Johann Jakob Herzog , Gustav Leopold Plitt (Ed.): Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church . 8th volume. 2nd edition, JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1881, p. 159.