History French Revolution Church reforms
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- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Reforms for the Church
- Oath of Loyalty
- 27th November 1790 decreed the clergy must take an oath to the constitution
- Refractory and non jurying priests disagreed with the oath
- 27th November 1790 decreed the clergy must take an oath to the constitution
- Sale of Church Land
- Provide money for the State before new taxation system
- Clergy would support new regime- depedent on it for their wages
- People who bought Church land would be likely to oppose a restoration of the ancien regime- lose their lands to the Church
- Government issued bonds- assignats which public could buy/use for Crown lands
- Buying Church land
- 25% of Church land sold by 1799
- Peasants bought 52%
- Peasant smallholders increased by a million between 1789 and 1810
- Bourgeoisie 48%
- Peasants bought 52%
- SUCCESS: Quick sales, gave the new system immediate support by creating a vested interest and peasants able to buy large plots
- FAILURE: Inflation lost 99% of value and it brought the Bourgeoisie up
- 25% of Church land sold by 1799
- Tithes, annates and pluralism abolished
- End of priviliges
- Oath of Loyalty
- Approved on 12th July 1790
- Reformed the Catholic Church in France.
- Dioceses were to coincide with departments, meaning the number of bishoprics would be reduced from 135 to 83.
- KEY TERMS of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Each department form a single diocese
- No recognition of a bishop not approved by French State
- Priests and bishops to be elected
- Elections by ballot, and by absolute majority
- Priests paid by State
- No absenteeism by priests or bishops (away from his diocese more than 15 days)
- Reforms for the Church
- Buying Church land
- 25% of Church land sold by 1799
- Peasants bought 52%
- Peasant smallholders increased by a million between 1789 and 1810
- Bourgeoisie 48%
- Peasants bought 52%
- SUCCESS: Quick sales, gave the new system immediate support by creating a vested interest and peasants able to buy large plots
- FAILURE: Inflation lost 99% of value and it brought the Bourgeoisie up
- 25% of Church land sold by 1799
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