concordat
- n a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- The Lateran Accords included a diplomatic treaty, a religious concordat, and a financial convention, as well as specific agreements on mail, currency, physical access, and all the .
- In 1933, when Hitler came to power and Pius XII was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's secretary of state, he signed a concordat with Hitler that legitimized him in the world .
- A concordat between the papacy and Napoleon in 1801 gave the church a privileged position as the majority religion of France.