Religious edict

Religious edicts go back to the early Christian imperial canon law and were official ordinances with which the relationships between the state and religions , as well as their exercise in the state, were regulated. The most important and historically outstanding edicts (selection) include:

The religious edict of Milan by Emperor Constantine and Licinius , in which Christianity was tolerated for the entire Roman Empire ( 313 )
Emperor Theodosius I (379–395) issued the three Emperor edict " Cunctos populos " on February 28, 380 , he forbade Arianism and made the belief in the deity of Christ established by the Council in Nicaea (325) mandatory.
The Edict of Worms of 1521 , which against Martin Luther and his followers, the outlawry pronounced.
The Edict of Nantes from 1598 ended the Huguenot Wars .
With the Virginia Bill of Rights of June 12, 1776, the most important basic rights / human rights were established, as well as popular sovereignty, separation of powers , the right to vote , legislation , freedom of the press and freedom of religion .
The religious edict of July 9, 1788 , with the King Friedrich Wilhelm II. And his minister to the spiritual department of Johann Christoph von Wöllner the Lutheran orthodoxy in Prussia tried to enforce.
The edict concerning religious freedom in the electoral duchies of Franconia and Swabia of January 10, 1803.
The Bavarian imperial edict of 1818 withdrew some of the freedoms set out in the Bavarian Concordat of 1817 and ordered the supervision of ecclesiastical jurisdiction .

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Dictionary history. By Konrad Fuchs and Heribert Raab . 12th edition, Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001.

Individual evidence

^ Government Gazette for the Principality of Churpfalz-Baier in Franconia. 1803, pp. 25 ff.
↑ Martin Elze: The Evangelical Lutheran Church. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 482-494 and 1305 f., Here: p. 482.

[1] Government Gazette for the Principality of Churpfalz-Baier in Franconia. 1803, pp. 25 ff.

[2] Martin Elze: The Evangelical Lutheran Church. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 482-494 and 1305 f., Here: p. 482.