Concordat of 1855
The Concordat of 1855 was a
Catholic Church in Austria
.
The
Austrian Bishops' Conference was established in 1849 and agreed to a Concordat that would grant the Church greater scope in a variety of areas. It was granted full control over its own affairs, including making appointments.[1]: 123 The Church was also placed in charge of 98% of public primary schools: those that were nominally Catholic and controlled the curriculum.[1] The Catholic ecclesiastical courts were given jurisdiction over marriages where either or both the couple were Catholic.[1]
International repercussions and abolishment
The Concordat had an impact across
Emperor Franz Josef to grant concessions to German liberals in Cisleithania.[1]: 124 Following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the liberals, in the Josephinist tradition, largely influenced the Cisleithanian Constitution of 1867. Article 17 stated, "The state shall have the right to superior direction and superintendence over the entire system of education and instruction."[2] The abrogation of the Concordat was formalised in 1870.[3]
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Originally there were plans to extend the Concordat to
Transleithania, but they never materialised.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Evans, Ellen Lovell (1999). The Cross and the Ballot: Catholic Political Parties in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1785-1985. Boston: Humanities Press International Inc.
- ^ Fundamental Law Concerning the General Rights of Citizens (PDF)
- ^ Aleksov, Bojan (2015). Habsburg Confessionalism and Confessional Policies in Bosnia Herzegovina. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
- ^ Schanda, Balazs (2006). "Religion and Law in Dialogue: Covenental and Non-Covenental Cooperation of State and Religions in Hungary". Religion and Law in Dialogue: Convenantal and Non-convenantal Cooperation Between State and Religion in Europe. Leuven: Peeters Publishers: 79.