concordat
noun
- agreement or treaty between the Holy See of the Catholic Church and a sovereign state
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kənˈkɔːdæt/
noun
Etymology: From French concordat, from Latin concordatum.
- A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
“That eminent and independant statesman, Count Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit since the fall of the Bonapartes.”
“The Concordat of the See of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].”