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/kənkˈɔːdæt/
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- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
How To Use concordat In A Sentence
- Both originals (instrumenta) of the Concordat of Worms were read and ratified, and twenty-two disciplinary canons were promulgated, most of them reinforcements of previous conciliary decrees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- He did not rest content with a mere strict fulfilment of the pecuniary obligations to the Church to which the Concordat had bound the State; in 1803 and 1804 it became the custom to pay stipends to canons and desservants of succursal parishes. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- The Austrian court was dominated by the Jesuits, its government had concluded a concordat with Pius IX, the pope who ardently combated all modern ideas.
- Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict.
- It was election purdah at the time so the concordat was not released.
- Theiner: Histoire des deux concordats de la république française et de la république cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1813, entre Napoléon Bonaparte et le Saint-Siège.] The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
- The Concordat re-established the Church in France, but it did not re-endow the Church on a scale which would have enabled it at once to reconstruct its own educational system. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
- In open violation of the Concordat, these nuptiality restrictions encroached upon the authority of canon law in the sacrament of matrimony and deprived the Christian wedlock of converts from Jewry of civil effects.
- His concordat was the work of a real psychologist, who knew that moral forces do not use violence, and the great danger of persecuting such. The Psychology of Revolution
- In 1801, while still first consul, he signed a concordat with the Catholic Church.