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  2. Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Inquisition formally started in Portugal in 1536 at the request of King João III. Manuel I had asked Pope Leo X for the installation of the Inquisition in 1515, but only after his death in 1521 did Pope Paul III acquiesce.

  3. Timeline of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    1540: Pope Paul III confirms the order of the Society of Jesus. 1541 The Archdiocese of Lima is founded as the diocese of Lima, Peru. July 21, 1542: Pope Paul III, with the constitution Licet ab initio, establishes the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition.

  4. List of popes - Wikipedia

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    Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.

  5. Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The first medieval inquisition, the episcopal inquisition, was established in the year 1184 by a papal bull of Pope Lucius III entitled Ad abolendam, "For the purpose of doing away with." It was a response to the growing Catharist movement in southern France .

  6. Mexican Inquisition - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Spanish Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Inquisition was unique at the time because it was not led by the Pope. Once the bull of creation was granted, the head of the Inquisition was the Monarch of Spain. It was in charge of enforcing the laws of the king regarding religion and other private-life matters, not of following orders from Rome, from which it was independent.

  8. Portuguese Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    Papal bull 'Cum ad nihil magis' After many years of negotiations between the kings and the popes, the Portuguese Inquisition was established on 23 May 1536, by order of Pope Paul III bull Cum ad nihil magis, and imposed the censorship of printed publications, starting with the prohibition of the Bible in languages other than Latin.

  9. History of the Catholic Church and homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    The Pope refused the request of King Philip II of Spain to extend the authority of the Spanish Inquisition to conducting such trials in the rest of Spain. [ 33 ] Within Aragon and its dependent territories, the number of individuals that the Spanish Inquisition tried for sodomy, [ 7 ] [ 33 ] between 1570 and 1630 was over 800 [ 53 ] or nearly a ...