Gallicanism is the belief that popular civil authority—often represented by the monarchs` authority or the State`s authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the Pope`s. Gallicanism is a rejection of ultramontanism; it is akin to a form of Anglicanism but is nuanced, however, in that it plays down the authority of the Pope ......
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• (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.
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a complex of French ecclesiastical and political doctrines and practices advocating restriction of papal power; it characterized the life of the ... [14 related articles]
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Gal'li·can·ism noun The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.
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noun a religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church
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