Judicial-economic history of the autofinancing of the spanish catholic church and the other religious confessions until 1945

Authors

  • Guillermo Hierrezuelo Conde

Abstract

The economic History of the auto-financing of the Church has been a result of the Church-State confrontation, which has remained expressed in the different regulating concordates of the relations between the subjects. During centuries the Church did not only self-financed itself, but also financed the very State for their numerous wars that were carried out in great part of Europe. But in the XIXth Century there was a rupture of the traditional model of the Church-State relation and the growth of the paying back process, which started as a consequence of the urgent need of the Spanish State, leaving the Spanish Church in a somewhat difficult situation and compromised in the economical aspect. As from that moment a phase started in which the State would be the very guarantor of the Church, in this way trying to exert an economical, political and moral control on it.

Author Biography

Guillermo Hierrezuelo Conde

Doctor en Derecho
C/ Estrella Polar, 2, 1º H 4, 41015 Sevilla, España

How to Cite

Hierrezuelo Conde, G. (2008). Judicial-economic history of the autofinancing of the spanish catholic church and the other religious confessions until 1945. Revista De Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos, (30). Retrieved from https://rehj.cl/index.php/rehj/article/view/492

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