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The Petite Église (French: Little Church; Dutch: Stevenisten, lit. 'Stevenists') was a group of French and Belgian Roman Catholics who separated from the Catholic Church in France following 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 community declined following the death of its last episcopal adherent in 1829, and the last members submitted to the Bishop of Saint-Flour in 1911.
References
editFurther reading
edit- 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)
External links
edit- Union des Petites Eglises Catholiques Indépendantes a small Old Catholic jurisdiction descended from the Petite Église.