Alsace

Religion

Most of the Alsatian population are Roman Catholic, but there is a significant Protestant community. Unlike the rest of the country, the Alsace-Moselle region continues to follow the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, under which public subsidies are granted to Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist churches, and to Jewish synagogues, and public education in those faiths is offered. This discrepancy with the rest of the country is due to the fact that the region was administered by Germany at the time of the 1905 law separating the French church and state. Controversy erupts periodically on the appropriateness of this legal disposition, as well as on the exclusion of other religions from this arrangement.

Related Topics:
Alsace-Moselle - Napoleonic - Concordat of 1801 - Roman Catholic - Lutheran - Calvinist - Jewish

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