Exemption (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Johannes Baptist Sägmüller · 1913
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Description
Exemption is the freeing of a church person, body, or house, wholly or partly, from the superior next above it. The body thus freed passes under a higher authority, or the pope himself. At first all in a diocese stood under the bishop. But bishops at times oppressed monasteries, which sought the shield of synods, princes, and popes.
That shield often grew into exemption, first given by Honorius I in 628 to Bobbio. From the eleventh century, papal reform work spread exemptions, until by the twelfth century they were the rule. Trent tried to curb abuses by restoring bishops' sway in many matters, but monasteries resisted. Exemption may come by grant, by immemorial use, or by origin, and it ends by withdrawal, contrary custom, or extinction.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Johannes Baptist Sägmüller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |