Gallican : ancient church of Gaul or France; also belonging to the French Roman Catholic school following Bossuet & claiming partial autonomy. The Gallicans held that the French monarch had special rights in the Roman Catholic Church in France.
... temporal power. Even in the nations which remained Catholic, a real independence and dominance of the temporal authority was successfully vindicated; for the King of France exercised a control over the Gallican Church and clergy which rendered all effective interference of the Pope in French affairs impossible. In Spain, in spite of the close alliance between Pope and King and the theoretical admission of ...
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