Concordat of 11 June 1817
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The Concordat of 11 June 1817 was a concordat between the kingdom of France and the Holy See , signed on 11 June 1817. Not having been enacted into law by the French parlement, it never came into force in France. The country remained under the regime outlined in the Concordat of 1801 until the 1905 law on the Separation of the Churches and the State was enacted.
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Representatives
Representing Pope Pius VII was Cardinal Ercole Consalvi , the papal secretary of state. He had already negotiated the 1801 Concordat, and was designated the plenipotentiary for the 1817 negotiations. King Louis XVIII chose his favorite, the ambassador to Rome, the Comte de Blacas , who had previously served as the prime minister of France , to negotiate the Concordat of 1817.
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The Concordat's introduction (1st article) was a repetition of that of the Concordat of Bologna , but the other articles laid down restrictions on this "re-establishment" of the Concordat of Bologna.
A revised ecclesiastical geography
One of the accord's objectives was to increase the number of dioceses in France. Another important article (article 4) stipulated that the dioceses in the kingdom of France suppressed by the bull of the Holy See of 29 November 1801 were to be re-established in such a number as both sides would agree on as the most advantageous for the good of religion .
Organisation of dioceses envisaged by the French Concordat of 1817 Ecclesiastical provinces (*)Dioceses (**)Territory Aix, with the title of Embrun Aix-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône (Arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence )Digne Basses-Alpes Fréjus Var Gap Hautes-Alpes Albi Albi Tarn (arrondissements of Albi and of Gaillac )Cahors Lot Castres Tarn (arrondissements of Castres and of Lavaur ) Mende Lozère Rodez Aveyron Arles Ajaccio Corsica Arles Bouches-du-Rhône (arrondissement of Arles )Marseille Bouches-du-Rhône (arrondissement of Marseille )Auch Aire Landes Auch Gers Bayonne Basses-Pyrénées Tarbes Hautes-Pyrénées Avignon Avignon Vaucluse (arrondissements of Apt and of Avignon )Orange Vaucluse (arrondissements of Carpentras and of Orange ) Besançon Belley Ain Besançon Doubs , Haute-Saône Metz Moselle Nancy Meurthe Saint-Dié Vosges Strasbourg Bas-Rhin , Haut-Rhin Verdun Meuse Bordeaux Agen Lot-et-Garonne Angoulême Charente Bordeaux Gironde La Rochelle Charente-Inférieure Luçon Vendée Périgueux Dordogne Poitiers Vienne and Deux-Sèvres Bourges Bourges Cher and Indre Clermont Puy-de-Dôme Le Puy Haute-Loire Limoges Creuse and Haute-Vienne Saint-Flour Cantal Tulle Corrèze Cambrai Arras Pas-de-Calais (arrondissements of Arras , of Béthune and of Saint-Pol )Boulogne Pas-de-Calais (arrondissements of Boulogne , of Montreuil and of Saint-Omer ) Cambrai Nord Lyon Autun Saône-et-Loire (arrondissements of Autun and of Charolles )Chalon-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire (arrondissements of Chalon , of Louhans and of Mâcon ) Dijon Côte-d'Or Langres Haute-Marne Lyon Rhône and Loire Saint-Claude Jura Narbonne Béziers Hérault (arrondissements of Béziers and of Saint-Pons )Carcassonne Aude (arrondissement of Castelnaudary and, in the arrondissement of Carcassonne , the cantons of Alzonne , of Capendu , of Carcassonne 1 & 2, of Conques , of the Mas-Cabardès , of Peyriac and of Saissac )Montpellier Hérault (arrondissements of Lodève and of Montpellier )Narbonne Auof (arrondissements of Limoux and of Narbonne and, in the arrondissement of Carcassonne, the cantons of Lagrasse , Mouthoumet and of Tuchan ) Nîmes Gard Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales Paris Blois Loir-et-Cher Chartres Eure-et-Loir Meaux Seine-et-Marne Orléans Loiret Paris Seine Versailles Seine-et-Oise Reims Amiens Somme Beauvais Oise (arrondissements of Beauvais and of Senlis )Châlons-sur-Marne Marne (arrondissements of Châlons-sur-Marne , of Épernay , of Sainte-Menehould and of Vitry )Laon Aisne (arrondissements of Laon , of Saint-Quentin and of Vervins )Noyon Oise (arrondissements of Clermont and of Compiègne ) Reims Ardennes and Marne (Arrondissement of Reims )Soissons Aisne (arrondissements of Château-Thierry and of Soissons ) Rouen Bayeux Calvados Coutances Manche Évreux Eure Rouen Seine-Inférieure Sées Orne Sens Auxerre Yonne (arrondissements of Auxerre , of Avallon and of Tonnerre )Moulins Allier Nevers Nièvre Sens Yonne (arrondissements of Joigny and of Sens ) Troyes Aube Toulouse Montauban Tarn-et-Garonne Pamiers Ariège Toulouse Haute-Garonne Tours Angers Maine-et-Loire Le Mans Mayenne , Sarthe Nantes Loire-Inférieure Quimper Finistère Rennes Ille-et-Vilaine (arrondissements of Montfort , of Redon , of Rennes and of Vitré )Saint-Brieuc Côtes-du-Nord Saint-Malo Ille-et-Vilaine (arrondissements of Fougères and of Saint-Malo ) Vannes Morbihan Tours Indre-et-Loire Vienne Grenoble Isère (arrondissements of Grenoble and of Saint-Marcelin )Valence Drôme Vienne Isère (arrondissements of La Tour-du-Pin and of Vienne ) Viviers Ardèche
(*)In italics, dioceses elevated to the rank of archdioceses. In bold, dioceses and archdioceses that were foreseen to be created or re-established. Not all of them were.
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