[…] after being ordained, [Wake] went to Paris in 1682 as chaplain to Viscount Preston. Here Wake came into close touch with Gallicanism […]
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Gallicanism
Synonyms for "gallicanism"
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13 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 各国天主教自主主义 noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
- 限制教皇权力主义 noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
- 高卢主义 noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Finnish
1 entries- gallikanismi noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
French
1 entries- gallicanisme noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
German
1 entries- Gallikanismus noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Hungarian
1 entries- gallikanizmus noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Indonesian
1 entries- Galikanisme noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Italian
1 entries- gallicanismo noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Latin
1 entries- Gallicānismus noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gallikanisme noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Polish
1 entries- gallikanizm noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
Spanish
1 entries- galicanismo noun (doctrine of autonomy of the French church)
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Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.
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Ultramontanism (dominance by the Vatican) conflicted with Gallicanism (freedom from the Vatican) as the Church tried to come to terms with the changes of the nineteenth century.
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Douthat himself immediately tweeted that “it’s synodality when the Germans want something, Gallicanism when the Americans want something.”
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