Gallicanisms

Noun

Gallicanism (countable and uncountable, plural Gallicanisms)

1. (historical) The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.
   • […] after being ordained, [Wake] went to Paris in 1682 as chaplain to Viscount Preston. Here Wake came into close touch with Gallicanism […]1912, “Wake, William”, in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, volume 12, page 237

   Antonyms:

   anti-Gallicanism, ultramontanism

2. (broadly, derogatory, often) Support for the autonomy of national churches.
   • Ultramontanism (dominance by the Vatican) conflicted with Gallicanism (freedom from the Vatican) as the Church tried to come to terms with the changes of the nineteenth century.2006, John C. Super, “Papacy”, in J. Michael Francis, editor, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, volume 1, →ISBN, page 823
3. A liturgical feature distinctive of the Gallican Rite.
   • It must be remembered that the Gelasian Sacramentary is a Gallican recension of a Roman Sacramentary, and that it abounds in Gallicanisms.1895, F. E. Warren, “Introduction”, in The Antiphonary of Bangor: An Early Irish Manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, part 2, page xxviii