Protestant patent

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The Protestant Patent was on April 8, 1861 by Emperor Franz Joseph I issued. It bears the number RGBl.  41/1861. Its full name reads: Ordinance of the Minister of State, with which the internal constitution of the Protestant Church of both confessions in the Archduchy of Austria above and below the Enns, the Duchy of Salzburg, the Duchy of Styria, the Duchy of Carinthia and Carniola, the duchy of Görz and Gradisca, the Margraviate of Istria and the city of Trieste with their territory, in the princes of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator, the Grand Duchy of Krakow and the Duchy of Bukovina is provisionally regulated .

On April 9, 1861, Minister of State Anton von Schmerling issued an ordinance to enforce the patent .

The Protestant patent brought in 25 paragraphs for the first time a relative legal equality of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and the Helvetic Confession with the Roman Catholic Church . It applied to the Austrian Empire with the exception of the Kingdom of Hungary and was only replaced by the Protestant Law of July 6, 1961, which resulted in complete legal equality.

Structure of the Implementing Ordinance of April 9, 1861

  • General provisions.
  • First section. From the parishes, presbyteries and the larger parish councils.
  • Second part. From the district communities (senior citizens) and their representatives.
  • Third section. From the superintendential communities (superintendencies) and their representation.
  • Fourth section. From the two general synods.
  • Fifth section. From school and teaching matters.
  • Sixth section. About the choice of pastors, their rights and duties.
  • Seventh section. On the choice of seniors, their rights and obligations.
  • Eighth section. About the election of the superintendent, their rights and duties.
  • Section ninth. From the annual support of the municipalities, seniorates and superintendents from the state treasury.
  • Section 10. From the Oberkirchenrathe.
  • Enough.

See also

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Austrian Empire , a patent was a common name for a law.