Secularization (church property)
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This article is about the confiscation of church property by a state. For the transition of a church to secular uses, see Deconsecration.
Secularization is the confiscation of church property by a government, such as in the suppression of monasteries. The term is often used to specifically refer to such confiscations during the French Revolution and the First French Empire in the sense of seizing churches and converting their property to state ownership.
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