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Lucrecia's {{wp|state religion}} was, until 1795, the [[Caphiric Church|Imperial Church of Caphiria]] (prior to the [[Great Schism of 1615]] it was the [[Catholic Church]]). Lucrecia was one of the few nations outside of Caphiria to have sided with the nascent Caphiric Church when it split from the Catholic Church in 1615, but due to remaining under Pelaxian suzerainty the Caphiric Church in Lucrecia soon came under the influence of the Levantine Church in Pelaxia despite the two institutions remaining separate. The Caphiric Church in Lucrecia was formally abolished as the state church of Lucrecia after the [[1795 Law of the Independence of the State from the Church]] was enacted, thus establishing the republic as a {{wp|secular state}}. The main motivation for the law was due to the belief that the establishment of a state church was in fact in violation of the Lucrecian constitution, particularly in the preamble where it explicitly declared Lucrecia to be "a republic governed by the civic and temporal rule of law". The 1795 Law did also include provisions to establish {{wp|freedom of religion}} and tax exemptions for any and all religious establishments while at the same time it included assurances that relations between the Curia and the Caphiric Church would be based on an {{wp|arms length principle|arms length approach}}, with the Law describing it as the two entities being independent of one another while remaining on equal footing. The Law also abolishes the clerical seats in the Senate which were first created during the 15th Century.