In the 1 9th century we find a long series of concordats, of which a good number are still in force.
It remains, however, partly in force for Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine, which formed part of French territory in 1801.
For Spain, completed in 1859 and 1888; in force.
For Portugal, completed in 1886 for the Portuguese possessions in the Indies; in force.
In 1865 the synod of that province, in an urgent letter to the archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Longley), represented the unsettlement of members of the Canadian Church caused by recent legal decisions of the Privy Council, and their alarm lest the revived action of Convocation "should leave us governed by canons different from those in force in England and Ireland, and thus cause us to drift into the status of an independent branch of the Catholic Church."
