cuius regio, eius religio

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 274 words | Copyright

cuius regio, eius religio (Lat., ‘In a [prince's] country, the [prince's] religion’). The formula adopted at the Peace of Augsburg (1555), by which the princes of the Empire were permitted to settle whether the religion of their lands should be RC or Lutheran.

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