In 1122, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor entered into an agreement with Pope Calistus II known as the Concordat of Worms.

The Concordat of Worms, sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians, was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms.

The Concordat of Worms was a part of the larger reforms put forth by many popes, most notably Pope Gregory VII.

Pope Gregory VII began reforms that led to the Concordat of Worms.

It remained for his successor, Henry V to agree with Pope Calixtus II in 1122 to a compromise of the conflict over lay investitures known as the Concordat of Worms.

The Concordat of Worms was the result.

The agreement reached at Bec Abbey in 1107 was essentially the same as the Concordat of Worms.

The investiture issue was still contentious, but a compromise at Bec Abbey in 1107 was essentially identical to the Concordat of Worms.

The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.

The Cathedral of Worms was 10 years old when the Concordat was issued there in 1122.

During the time following the Concordat of Worms, the Church gained in both stature and power.

In the Concordat of Worms the church accepted a face-saving concession.

The Concordat of Worms had eased the situation for a generation.

All kings supported King John of England ’ s defiance of Pope Innocent III ninety years after the Concordat of Worms in the matter concerning Stephen Langton.

In this, the Concordat of Worms changed little.

The effect of the Concordat of Worms was different.

The following is an English translation of the Concordat of Worms.

ca: Concordat de Worms

fr: Concordat de Worms

* Concordat of Worms

It was convoked by Pope Calixtus II in December, 1122, immediately after the Concordat of Worms.

During the Council the decisions of the Concordat of Worms were read and ratified.

The Concordat was confirmed by the First Council of the Lateran in 1123.

The pope, who was weak and had few supporters was forced to suggest a compromise, the abortive Concordat of 1111.

The belief after the Concordat was that investiture and the era of theocratic kingship was a discredited doctrine.

The Avignon Papacy occurring several centuries after the Concordat indicated there was continued interference in the papacy by kings.

The Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Church ended the de-Christianization period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French State that lasted until it was abrogated by the Third Republic via the separation of church and state on 11 December 1905.

This was seen in the Concordat of 1801, which formally reinstated the Catholic Church in France.

By September 23, the Concordat of Worms, also called the Pactum Calixtinum was concluded.

The First Lateran Council was convoked to confirm the Concordat of Worms.

It has been argued by some historians that the Concordat of Worms and its reiteration by Lateran I were little more than face saving measures by the Church.

The Concordat was confirmed by the First Council of the Lateran in 1123.

The conflict between popes and secular autocratic rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Henry I of England, known as the question of investiture, was only resolved in 1122, by the Concordat of Worms, in which the pope decreed that clerics were to be invested by clerical leaders, and temporal rulers by lay investiture.

Lothair was keen to keep Honorius on his side, keeping to the terms of the Concordat of Worms by not attending episcopal elections, agreeing that the investiture should only occur after the bishop ’ s consecration, and that the oath of homage be replaced with an oath of fidelity.

His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat of Worms ( in 1122 ).

He was selected by Pope Calixtus II for various important and difficult missions, such as the one to Worms for the conclusion of the Concordat of Worms, the peace accord made with Holy Roman Emperor Henry V in 1122, and also the one to France in 1123 that made peace with King Louis VI.

Before the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and Cavaillon, which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 to Avignon, together with the Diocese of Apt, a suffragan of Aix-en-Provence.

He did, however, maintain the rights secured by the Concordat of Worms.

Politically, he concluded the Concordat of Vienna, or Aschaffenburg ( 17 February 1448 ) with the German King, Frederick III, by which the decrees of the Council of Basel against papal annates and reservations were abrogated so far as Germany was concerned.

This recrudescence of the investiture conflict was settled by the Concordat of 1801.

His protests against the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges were ineffectual, but by means of the Concordat of the Princes, negotiated by Piccolomini with the electors in February 1447, the whole of Germany declared against the antipope.

Relations between church and state remained regulated by the Concordat of 1801.

Article 34 of the Concordat also had specified that marriages performed by the Catholic Church would always be considered valid by civil authorities.