Catholic emancipation
REDUCTION IN ANTI-CATHOLIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE UK AND IRELAND
Catholic Emancipation Act; Catholic Emancipation Bill; Catholic Emanicpation Acts; Catholic Act of 1792; Catholic Emancipation; Emancipation of Catholics
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws. Requirements to abjure (renounce) the temporal and spiritual authority of the pope and transubstantiation placed major burdens on Roman Catholics.