Edict of Toleration (Hawaii)

Decree allowing the establishment of Catholicism in Hawaii

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Kamehameha III, king who proclaimed the Edict of Toleration

An Edict of Toleration was decreed by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii on June 17, 1839, which allowed for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.[1] The religious traditions of ancient Hawaii were preferred by Kings Kamehameha and Kamehameha II, with the Catholic Church being suppressed in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Later, during the regency of Kaahumanu and the child king Kamehameha III, the Congregational church was the preferred Christian denomination. Kamehameha III issued the edict under the threat of force by the French government, as the French were seeking to protect the work of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The 1840 Constitution later enshrined religious liberty. Under this threat from the French, King Kamehameha III paid $20,000 in compensation for the deportation of priests and the incarceration and torture of converts.

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1. ^ Frear, Walter F. (1894). "Evolution of the Hawaiian Judiciary". Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society (7). Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society. hdl:10524/966.

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