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La formation des provinces synodales protestantes dans la France moderne

Yves Krumenacker

Résumé

In order to form the boundaries of their churches' synods, French Huguenots chose those of the gouvernements, which were military and administrative districts. Still, these synods did not necessarily correspond to their respective gouvernements, i. e. a synod could cover the area of several gouvernements while a single gouvernement could also contain various synods. From 1614 until 1685 there were sixteen synods in France, whose boundaries were drawn according to pragmatic criteria. Durable districts were aimed at; hence, fewer changes took place during the seventeenth century than during the sixteenth. Unlike Catholic dioceses, synods were not sacred territories
but rather an adaptation to contemporary circumstances. Nor were they abstract spaces, but actual networks of several churches. Public Protestant worship was prohibited in France in 1685, yet the clandestine Église du Désert was soon established
again. In the eighteenth century only a few Protestant
churches could continue to exist and the number of
synods declined considerably, as a result of which their
boundaries could not be maintained. The geographical
distribution of synods was closely related to the spatial
position of churches and was therefore subject to alterations depending on political circumstances

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halshs-00341512 , version 1 (25-11-2008)

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Yves Krumenacker. La formation des provinces synodales protestantes dans la France moderne. Susanne Rau, Gerd Schwerhoff. Topographien des Sakralen. Religion und Raumordnung in der Vormoderne, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, pp.120-133, 2008. ⟨halshs-00341512⟩
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