concordat

Definitions

A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.

Equivalents

Examples

“That eminent and independant statesman, Count⟳ Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit⟳ since the fall⟳ of the Bonapartes.”

“The Concordat of the See⟳ of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].”

“Later, he also promoted a significant degree of reconciliation between the Austrian social democratic movement and the Roman Catholic Church through the negotiation of the 1960 Concordat.”

“1527: when the cardinal comes back from France, he immediately begins ordering up banquets. French ambassadors are expected, to set⟳ the seal on his concordat.”

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