Concept

Gallicanism

Overview

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

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Gallicanism

• Joseph de Maistre
• Jean Bodin
• Félicité de La Mennais

Related ideas

• Eastern Orthodox Church
• French Revolution
• Anglicanism
• Holy See
• University of Notre Dame
• Jurisprudence
• Authority
• Monarch
• Thomas Aquinas
• Sovereign state
• Religion
• Theology
• Syllabus of Errors
• Marsilius of Padua
• Secularity
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Milan
• Gaul
• Bishop
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Cathedral
• God
• Pope Leo XIII
• Low Countries

Place in the tradition

Part of Spanish philosophy.

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