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Gallicanism

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Gallikanismus

The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the popeThe doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.

Meaning

3 senses

(countable, historical, uncountable)The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.
Gallikanismus
(broadly, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable)Support for the autonomy of national churches.
(countable, uncountable)A liturgical feature distinctive of the Gallican Rite.

More definitions

a religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church