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The Mexican Inquisition was an extension of the events that were occurring in Spain and the rest of Europe for some time. Spanish Catholicism had been reformed under the reign of Isabella I of Castile (1479– 1504), which reaffirmed medieval doctrines and tightened discipline and practice.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición) ... Sardinia and Latin America) between 1701 and 1746: [219]
The Peruvian Inquisition was established on January 9, 1570 and ended in 1820. [1] The Holy Office and tribunal of the Inquisition were located in Lima , the administrative center of the Viceroyalty of Peru .
The Venetian Inquisition, formally the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium), was the tribunal established jointly by the Venetian government and the Catholic Church to repress heresy throughout the Republic of Venice. The inquisition also intervened in cases of sacrilege, apostasy, prohibited books, superstition, and witchcraft.
The establishment of the Palace was decreed by Philip III of Spain. [4] Since Cartagena was a center of commerce, a transit point between the Caribbean and Spanish settlements in western South America, the city became the third in the Spanish empire to have a tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
At the same time that the episcopal hierarchy in Mexico first had a secular cleric as archbishop, the tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was established in 1569 to maintain orthodoxy and Christian morality. In 1570, Indians were removed from the Inquisition's jurisdiction.
The term "Inquisition" comes from the Medieval Latin word inquisitio, which described a court process based on Roman law, which came back into use during the Late Middle Ages. [10] It was a new, less arbitrary form of trial that replaced the denunciatio and accussatio process [ 11 ] which required a denouncer or used an adversarial process, the ...
The Holy Office of the Inquisition established an office in Lima January 9, 1570, to control the Christian population of the Viceroyalty and to identify non-Catholics, such as Jews, Lutherans, and Muslims. [b] [7] [8] Consequently, 'New Christians' began to be persecuted, and, in some cases, executed.