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What advantages and disadvantages were there for Napoleon in agreeing to the Concordat?
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What advantages and disadvantages were there for Napoleon in agreeing to the Concordat? Before deciding what advantages and disadvantages there were for Napoleon on agreeing to the Concordat I think it is important that we look at the basic outline of the Concordat and what it stated. The Concordat was signed with Pope Pius VII in 1801, it stated that the state would pay the clergy a salary and make appointments to senior positions, such as bishops and archbishops. The position of the Pope as Head of the Catholic Church was recognized. The Catholic clergy was to obey the state and promised an oath to do so. The Church would not try to regain lands confiscated by the revolution. It agreed that services would be supervised under police powers. Catholicism also regained its position as the official religion of most Frenchmen. Napoleon thought that this agreement would bind the...
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