Briand-Ceretti Agreement

The Briand-Ceretti Agreement is an agreement whereby French diocesan bishops are nominated by the Vatican after a process involving the French Ministries of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs.

This agreement saw the resolution of an impasse wherby the Vatican had refused to recognise the Associations Cultuelles voted in the 1905 legislation in the spirit of the 1901 Loi sur les Associations and accepted by the Jewish and Protestant religious bodies. The agreement made possible the forming of Associations Diocésaines with members appointed by the bishops.

In the case of the Concordat dioceses of Strasburg and Metz it is the French President who, after consultations with the Vatican, makes the appointment.

ee also

*Concordat of 1801
* Catholic Church in France
* 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State
*French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools
*French legislation for the prevention and repression of cultic groups