Petite Église

The Petite Église (French pronunciation: [pətit eɡliz], "Little Church"; Dutch: Stevenisten, lit. 'Stevenists') was a constellation of separate groups of French and Belgian Roman Catholics who separated from the Catholic Church in France because they opposed the reintegration of secularised priests by the Concordat of 1801 between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon Bonaparte. They were considered schismatic. One modern estimate gives its number of adherents as high as 100,000 at one time. The various communities were mostly independent from each others and adherents in each group were known by a different names. The communities declined slowly over time as their leading priests aged and died. The last enfarinés of Aveyron formally submitted to the Bishop of Saint-Flour in 1911. But the Petite Église of Poitou still had at least 3000 adherents in the 50s and an attempt was made in 1996 by John Paul II to restore communion with the group.

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Further reading

  • Allen, Rupert (2019). The Last Sentinels of Gallicanism: The Evolution of La Petite Église from Episcopal Protest to Lay Church. University of Bristol.
  • Condamnation de l'erreur des dissidens ou de la petite église, par le N. S. P. le pape Pie VII: pièces officielles et lettre de M. Lambert, chanoine,... Poitiers: F.-A. Barbier. 1819.
  • Bricaud, Joanny (1906). La petite église anticoncordataire: son histoire, son état actuel (in French). Paris: Lucien Bodin.
  • Drochon, Jean-Emmanuel B. (1894) La petite église; essai historique sur le schisme anticoncordataire. 1894. (in French)["Le livre du Père Drochon n'a aucune valeur historique." Bricaud, p. 22.]
  • Hastings, James; Selbie, John Alexander, eds. (1917). Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics: Mundas-Phrygians. Vol. IX. New York: C. Scribner's sons. pp. 814–815.
  • Janssen (2006). La Petite Église en 30 questions. Geste Editions 2006. (in French)
  • Latreille, Camille (1911). La Petite-Eglise de Lyon (in French). Lyon: H. Lardanchet.
  • Mège, Francisque (1895). L'exécution du Concordat et la petite église dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme (in French). Clermont-Ferrand: L. Bellet.
  • Raymonde Baptiste (analysé et présenté par...) (1998) Carnet-journal de François Métay, membre de la Petite Église (1878-1883) 1998, ISBN 2-913089-02-X. (in French)
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