Category:Constitutional clergy
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English: In 1790, the French National Assembly required all clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Only seven bishops and about half the clergy agreed: the rest, mainly in western France, refused; these became known as "non-jurors" or "refractory priests".
Subcategories
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
C
- François Chabot (8 F)
D
- Jean-Marie Delaunay (3 F)
G
- René Gabriel (priest) (1 F)
- Jean-Baptiste Gobel (1 P, 14 F)
L
- Julien Lucas (1 F)
R
- Jacques Roux (6 F)