The diocese of Metz corresponds to the French Département of the the Moselle. Its évêché is located at Metz.

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The diocese counts:

History

The évêché is founded at the 3rd century. Integrated into the kingdom of Austrasie mérovingien then with the Carolingian Lotharingie, it forms then part of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire: the bishop is then sovereign count of Metz and prince of the Saint Worsens before having to yield the political power to the middle-class of the city at the 13th century. He withdraws himself then on his grounds évêchoises of Vic-on-Pail. The town of Metz and its dependences are militarily occupied by the troops of the king French Henri II which receives them in exchange of its alliance with the German Protestant princes against the emperor Charles Quint in 1552. This “protection” transforms little by little into an annexation de facto which is recognized of swears under the terms of the treated of Munster in 1648. The bishop since the 10th century on the one hand and the municipality of Metz since the end of the 14th century on the other hand, have and use the right of Monnaie. Actually, the bishop yields the workshop of Metz to the city in 1383 and its successors continue until in 1460 episcopal coining with Marsal, a possession of the temporal field of the évêché. After approximately a one century interruption, the cardinal Robert de Lenoncourt, bishop of Metz in 1551, makes install a new workshop with Vic-on-Pail to replace that of Marsal and takes again episcopal coining . Under the French Occupation , it is its successor Charles of Lorraine which makes it function until in 1559 while making there strike Pièce S of the type French and others of the system of the empire. After a new interruption, the bishop Henri de Verneuil emits some coins at the beginning of the 17th century. However, after a setting under sequestration of the workshop by the king de France in 1553, the town of Metz recovers its right of coinage in 1563 and until in 1662 uses it.

The évêché then forms part of the Archevêché of Trier.

After the upheaval revolutionary, anxious to restore civil peace and nun in France, the first consul Napoleon Bonaparte establishes a legal settlement with the Pape Pie VII, the 26 Messidor An IX (July 15th 1801). Ratified the 23 Fructidor An IX, this treated is promulgated by the Loi of the 18 Germinal An X (April 8th 1802), at the same time as a whole of provisions which are attached to him, called organic articles. The latter are decided unilaterally by the government French. On the whole, during the 19th century, four Culte S will be recognized the Catholic church, the reformed Church, that of the Confession of Augsburg and the worship Jew. Juridically, these worships are in load of a " public service " , to which the State allocates a budget.

Many legislative texts and the practice of the Council of State continue to enrich the corpus by the pertaining to worship Droit French. Being the Catholic church, are to be quoted the recutting of the Diocèse S French, the nomination of the bishop S by the Gouvernement, the remuneration of the Ministers for the Culte by the State, the creation of public corporations intended in particular for the material management of the Église (Mense S episcopal and curiales, offices of the Séminaire S, Fabrique S parochial and chapters cathédraux), a particular status for the religious congregations, or the rules governing the Enseignement.

In 1871, the Traité of Frankfurt involves the annexation north-eastern Alsace and left Lorraine (German-speaking areas and Metz-native country) with the new whole German Empire. Very quickly the question of the statute of the Culte S in the annexed territories arises. The legal settlement, treated international law, cannot theoretically apply to a territory not raising sovereignty of the one of the signatories. Moreover, article 17 of the legal settlement lays down the renegotiation of the agreements obtained if the successor of the first consul would not be catholic, which is the case of the emperor of Germany. Ultimately, by tacit agreement between the Germany and the the Holy See, the whole of the pertaining to worship mode French is maintained in the three annexed departments. During all this period, the legislator supplements or modifies the existing provisions by Loi S specific to the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen or applicable to the unit of the empire.

In 1918, the end of the first world war involves the return of the departments the Rhine and the Moselle to the France, whose religious Histoire knew upheavals during all the period of the annexation: the December 9th 1905, the Parlement French voted the law known as of separation of the Church and the State. If the principle of the free exercise of the Culte S is affirmed there, the Culte S lose on the other hand any recognition on behalf of the State. In this context, the attachment of the Alsatian-Natives of the Moselle region to local legal particularism and in particular pertaining to worship, the technical superiority of certain legislative measures as regards Social security, of notarial Droit or commercial for example prevented the reintroduction of the civil Droit French without certain installations. Thus the civil law of June 1st 1924 allows the maintenance of the provisions of the local right pertaining to worship, on a purely transitory basis.

On the other hand if the French bishop had been able to be maintained in Metz in 1871, in spite of his savage opposition to the annexation by Germany, its German successor, although it largely showed his respect and its compassion with his faithful, had to dislocate his functions in 1919.

Between 1940 and 1944, the annexation in fact by the Third Reich involves the suppression of the legal system of the Culte S in Alsace and the Moselle, which will be restored with the Libération by an ordinance of the September 15th 1944, in its former form. Since this date, some texts modified the legal corpus, mainly for purposes to allow the adjustment of certain provisions become inoperative. As the Council of State affirms it in an opinion of the January 24th 1925, the certificated mode , such as it results from the Loi of the 18 Germinal An X (April 8th 1802), continuous to be applicable in the departments the Rhine and the Moselle. Since 1919, the Diocese S of Strasbourg and Metz depend directly on the the Holy See and thus on any ecclesiastical Province French.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the diocese of Metz

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