Abstract EN:

The clergy of ajaccio's diocese becomes quickly overcrowded when switching from the old regime to the concordat system without major disruption. Nevertheless it stays unevenly educated and strongly italianised due to the distance of the island, remaining apart from the france of the first third of the nineteeth century. On and after the monarchy of july, the religious outburst is materialised by the creation of parishes and the construction of several churches. At the same time, the growth of congregations and the arrival of a clergy better educated within the seminary opening in 1835, promote an improvment of the supervision of the faithful. The politico-religious dispute of the last quarter of the nineteeth century and the boundary between the church and state weaken the clergy, itself already divided, in the beginning of the twentieth century. For a long time, the insularity kept the corsican clergy apart from the continental one, but the concordat regime used that as an instrument to frenchity the island even more when corsica joined the second empire. However, the clergy keeps strong religious and cultural ties with italy, encouraging two (italian and french) languages of culture, in particular in its religious writing but also in its secular ones. Even moreso, in the catechism end preaching, the clergy does not renonce to dispense the chistian message in the corsican anguage, the only one understood by the entire population. Nevertheless, the maintenance of an insular culture does not help a loyal adherence to the french nation.