Gallicanism/Febronianism in 19th Century Ireland?

Is it possible to get an Irish equivalent of Gallicanism winning widespread support among Catholics in Ireland? I'm imagining a scenario where the French King holds on during the Revolution and Catholic Emancipation manages to pass during the Act of Union. This means many more pro-British Irish Catholics, who feel increasingly uncomfortable with being associated with a Bourbon-controlled Pope telling them to rise up against the British.
 
I'm not really sure how this would work, given that the UK has a Protestant king. As I understand it, Gallicanism is more a legal concept than a doctrinal one, and it was workable in 18th century France because while the King and the Pope may have disagreed on jurisdictional matters they didn't disagree on theology. I don't know if it's translatable to a situation where the king and the pope have theological differences.
 
I'm not really sure how this would work, given that the UK has a Protestant king. As I understand it, Gallicanism is more a legal concept than a doctrinal one, and it was workable in 18th century France because while the King and the Pope may have disagreed on jurisdictional matters they didn't disagree on theology. I don't know if it's translatable to a situation where the king and the pope have theological differences.

I was under the impression it could be national differences down to the bishops in that country. I was imagining more the Irish bishops wanting to lead the church in Ireland rather than the King. Is that doable?
 
I was under the impression it could be national differences down to the bishops in that country. I was imagining more the Irish bishops wanting to lead the church in Ireland rather than the King. Is that doable?

Not as long catholics are considered as thrid-class citizens at best. For having a national church, you need to have at least a bit of autonomy and reckognition of the church institutions by another power.
But for Ireland, as only the Pope were acknowledging and supporting it openly, I don't see why Irish clergy would have even thought about making a distinction.
 
Not as long catholics are considered as thrid-class citizens at best. For having a national church, you need to have at least a bit of autonomy and reckognition of the church institutions by another power.
But for Ireland, as only the Pope were acknowledging and supporting it openly, I don't see why Irish clergy would have even thought about making a distinction.

I'm not planning a "national church" as such, just a movement towards that direction, with the Catholic Church in Ireland, declaring the Pope wasn't infallible. The reasons they do this is that they think the Pope is being controlled for political reasons. More along these lines then Gallicanism I guess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Febronianism

The third-class citizens aspect is mostly remedied by Catholic emancipation in 1801, and I was expecting this sort of movement to happen later: say in the 1820s.
 
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