What is it about?
The Archpriest Controversy was a conflict between liberal Jesuits and conservative Appellants who were different factions among Catholics in late Elizabethan England. It began as a dispute over standards of clerical moral discipline but morphed into a battle for the direction of the Catholic Church in England. The Jesuits sought to make England an officially Catholic nation while the Appellants wanted toleration for Catholics in a Protestant nation.
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Why is it important?
The conclusions drawn from this article demonstrate that the Appellants had a more profound influence than previously thought over the reconciliation of church and state for English Catholics. Their essentially conservative views called for political obedience to the sovereign in all matters which had long been a tradition in England from the Middle Ages.
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It is my hope that this article will come a step closer in bringing the Archpriest Controversy out of relative obscurity. It was a very critical time in resolving the apparent contradictions of being a faithful Catholic while still professing loyalty to the English monarch.
Thomas Ridgedell
University of Mississippi
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This page is a summary of: The Archpriest Controversy: The conservative Appellants against the progressive Jesuits, British Catholic History, September 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/bch.2017.25.
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