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Gallicanism the body of doctrines, chiefly associated with French dioceses, advocating the restriction of papal authority, especially in administrative matters. Cf. ultramontanism. — Gallican, n., adj. See also: Catholicism
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This eighteenth-century Austrian version of French Gallicanism was a radical program of ecclesiastical and social reform grounded on Enlightenment presuppositions and named after Joseph II who, along with his mother Maria Theresa, first implemented it in an increasingly despotic manner. 18th-century reformism, whether inspired by the Enlightenment, Gallicanism, Jansenism, or Josephinism, was also anti-Roman. Gallicanism thus provided the ballast for parliamentary centrists, enabling them to chart their course - leeward or windward as circumstances dictated - amid the tempests of religious reform and civil war. |
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