Selling off the property of the Catholic Church and Noble emigres.
The Plantations.
The Catholic Church was the richest institution in the country and the largest land owner.
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In most of Europe, most of the land was controlled by the monarchs and the nobility. A lot of land was controlled by the Church, and I have read that in England the amount was upwards of 30%, an amount I find very easy to believe. In central Italy, the land was nearly all controlled by the Church.
The Catholic Church owned the most land and controlled education in Latin America during the colonial period.
Selling off the property of the Catholic Church and Noble emigres.
The Plantations.
They sold off amounts of the Catholic Church which owned 10% of the land in France.
During the colonial period, the majority of land in Latin America was owned by a small elite group of Spanish and Portuguese settlers, as well as the Catholic Church. Education was controlled by the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church, where education was often limited to elites and focused on religious instruction and maintaining social order.
I have read that about a third of the property in England was owned by the Church in the Middle Ages. It is hard to find a source for this, but the article on the Dissolution of the Monasteries (link below) says monastic lands were 16% of the country. Since there were many other lands belonging to the Church as well, a total of 33% might be believable.
The Catholic Church was the richest institution in the country and the largest land owner.
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Catholic AnswerThere is no "Roman Catholic Church", unless you are speaking of the local Catholic Church in the city of Rome. It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. .The Catholic Church does not own property as such, saving, of course, Vatican City, which actually is its own country, or city-state, if you will. In the United States, for instance, every thing in a diocese - parish Churches, property, schools, convents, everything is owned by the Bishop as corporate-sole. This is how the Catholic Church in the United States was set up due to the laws of that country. I am not familiar with other countries.