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Concordat with France
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 validated, it never came into force in France and so 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 .
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 of France 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.
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 [ edit ] 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.
