France
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, in spite of royal edicts and even denunciations of the
Sorbonne
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, at least the custom of paying the ''servitia communia'' held its ground until the infamous decree of August 4 during the
French Revolution
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in 1789.
Germany
In Germany, it was decided by the concordat of Constance, in 1418, that bishoprics and abbacies should pay the ''servitia'' according to the valuation of the Roman chancery in two half-yearly instalments. Those reserved benefices only were to pay the ''annalia'' which were rated above twenty-four gold florins; and as none were so rated, whatever their annual value may have been, the annalia fell into disuse. A similar convenient fiction also led to their practical abrogation in France, Spain and Belgium. The
council of Basel
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(1431–1443) wished to abolish the ''servitia'', but the
concordat of Vienna The Concordat of Vienna was a treaty concluded on 17 February 1448 between the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See.
Background
In the Princes' Concordat, concluded in January 1447 between Pope Eugenius IV and the prince-electors of the Holy Roma ...
(1448) confirmed the Constance decision. Politically, the collection was opposed by
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Reformation, Protestant Refo ...
his 1520 ''
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
''To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation'' (german: An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation) is the first of three tracts written by Martin Luther in 1520. In this work, he defined for the first time the signature doctrines of the priesth ...
'', in which he wrote:An Open Letter to The Christian Nobility by Martin Luther (1483-1546), iclnet.org
The practice of collecting ''servitia'' continued through the Reformation, in spite of the efforts of the
congress of Ems
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(1786) to alter it, still remains nominally in force. As a matter of fact, however, the revolution caused by the secularization of the ecclesiastical states in 1803 practically put an end to the system, and the ''servitia'' have either been commuted ''via gratiae'' to a moderate fixed sum under particular concordats, or are the subject of separate negotiation with each bishop on his appointment. In
Prussia
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, where the bishops received salaries as state officials, the payment was made by the government.
See also
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Secretariat for the Economy
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Description
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