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Ultramontanism and Dupanloup: The Compromise of 1865

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Marvin R. O'Connell
Marvin R. O'Connell
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Mr. O'Connell is professor of history in the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
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It is often asserted that the aggrandizement of the papacy during the nineteenth century reached its height with the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870. A case can be made, however, for the view that that definition, with its careful delimitations, was in fact a kind of anticlimax, that the ultramontane high tide really had been reached, and checked, five years before with the issuance of the Syllabus of Errors and the fateful intervention of Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans.

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Church History , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 200 - 217
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1984

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