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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
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Gallican Church
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The Catholic Church in France which, while sincerely devoted to the Catholic faith and the Holy See, resolutely refused to concede certain rights and privileges which belonged to it from the earliest times; it steadfastly contended that infallibility was vested not in the Pope alone, but in the entire episcopal body under him as its head; maintained the supreme authority of general councils and that of the holy canons in the government of the Church, and insisted that there was a distinction between the temporal and the spiritual power; contentions summed up in a declaration of the French clergy in 1682, the body of whom opposed to which are known by the name of "Ultramontanists."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gallican Church'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gallican-church.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gallican Church'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gallican-church.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
