Renovatio Religiosae
The Renovatio Religiosae (Estmerish: "religious renewal") was a proclamation made by King Rorie I in 1697, restoring the papacy in Tibernum as the ultimate religious authority in Scovern and ending the country's legacy of absolutism and Taenarianism.
After various deaths in the Scovernois line of succession, the Caldish-born Rorie ascended to the throne of Scovern according to salic law in 1696. Raised as an Amendist, Rorie's religion immediately conflicted with the Scovernois church and clergy, who despised the king for his refusal to convert upon coronation. As the presumptive heir to the Caldish throne through his mother Mary II, Rorie wished to remain Amendist to remain eligible for election by the Deísi to the Caldish throne.
The clergy and nobility in Scovern immediately threatened several ultimatums to the king, demanding the relinquishment of his status of religious authority. Several noble rebellions in Scovern, including the Tonder insurrection and the Battle of the Tinningfjord in 1696 indicated severe religious unrest in Scovern. In 1697, in Rimso, Rorie proclaimed to crowds the immediate raising of the papacy to complete supreme authority in the country, nominally ending the country's century-long history of Taenarianism. He asserted the Solarian Catholic Church's complete and supreme authority in all matters of faith, morals, and religious administration, declaring the church's decisions infallable and irreplacable.
The Renovatio Religiosae was the most significant of many religious reforms that were carried out during Rorie's reign, many of which elevated the power of the clergy in church in Scovern's domestic affairs. In Caldia, there was some noble unrest across the country when Rorie acceded to the Caldish throne, but was generally staved off with help from Gaullica, whose empress regnant was Rorie's aunt Madame Larue. The proclamation is generally seen a major point in interdenominational relations in Euclea, with some theologians claiming it acted as a major precursor for other church reforms across Euclea in the 18th and 19th centuries.