The
Briand-
Cerretti
Cerretti is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Santa Maria a Monte, province of Pisa. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 488.[diocesan
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...]
bishop
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s are nominated by the
Vatican
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Geography
* Vatican City, an independent city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy
* Vatican Hill, in Rome, namesake of Vatican City
* Ager Vaticanus, an alluvial plain in Rome
* Vatican, an unincorporated community in the ...
after a process involving the
French Ministries of the Interior and of
Foreign Affairs
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.
[ See drop-down essay on "The Third Republic and the 1905 Law of Laïcité"]
Description
This agreement saw the resolution of an impasse whereby the Vatican had refused to recognise the Associations Culturelles created by the
1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State
The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State (French language, French: ) was passed by the Chamber of Deputies (France), Chamber of Deputies on 3 July 1905. Enacted during the French Third Republic, Third Republic, it establishe ...
extending the
1901 French law on associations
Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (; 2 December 184610 August 1904) was a French Republican politician who served for three years as the Prime Minister of France.
Early life
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Brittany. His ...
; these laws had been accepted by the Jewish and Protestant religious bodies. The agreement made possible the forming of Associations Diocésaines with members appointed by the bishops.
In the case of the
Concordat
A concordat () is a convention between the Holy See and a sovereign state that defines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state in matters that concern both,René Metz, ''What is Canon Law?'' (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960 dioceses of
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