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/kənkˈɔːdæt/
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NOUN
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
How To Use concordat In A Sentence
- For the Concordat, in theory at least, brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century.
- So, why doesn't the Scottish Executive cite the spending concordat and get Westminster to pay for the cost of this change in policy?
- Ever since the Concordat of 1516 between Francis I and Pope Leo X the king had appointed all bishops and the abbots of greater monasteries.
- Only an international outcry can move these bureaucrats to honor the constitution instead of the concordat.
- Hence it follows that it is utterly impossible to call a concordat an international treaty in the real and true sense of the word (cf. a pamphlet anonymously edited in Rome, 1872, under the title: "Della Natura e carattere essenziale dei Concordati", whose author was Cardinal Cagiano de The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- He had even signed a Concordat with the papacy in July 1801, allowing the return of Roman Catholicism.
- The canonical-mission requirement was later incorporated into concordats between the Vatican and several German states, and the Reich itself.
- However, he conceded there could be opportunities for NHS consultants to boost their income from private work under the concordat.
- I have seen photos of Hitler and top Roman Catholic officials at a signing of a "concordat" and etc. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
- Concordat (1905) the Diocese of Saint-Brieuc contained 609,349 inhabitants, 48 parishes, 354 succursal parishes, 395 vicariates, towards the support of which the State contributed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock