MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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Protestantism replaced Catholicism as the state religion.
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The state shared governing power with the Church
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The Church was brought under the control of the state.
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The Church was given power over the state.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil Constitution reduced the number of bishops and archbishops, made the clergy paid employees of the government and required all members of the clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the status of the Catholic Church change under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy? The Church was brought under the control of the state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30, 000 priests, and killed hundreds more.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: Constitution civile du clergé) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of most of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.