Gallicanism 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.Example:Taxonomypope, Gallicanism, authority, council, the Church, Liberties, Churches, bishops, the bishops, king, the popes, Gallican Church, privileges, Gallican, theory, the Holy See, assembly, Gallican Liberties.Defination from the web:Gallicanism is the belief that popular civil authority—often represented by the monarchs' authority or the State's authority—over the Catholic ... Most of its partisans regarded Gallicanism as a revival of the most ancient traditions of Christianity, a persistence of the common law, which ...
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