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This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued. The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent popes as situations changed.
The Papal Bull of indulgence gave no sanction whatever to this proposition. It was a vague scholastic opinion, rejected by the Sorbonne in 1482, and again in 1518, and certainly not a doctrine of the church, which was thus improperly put forward as dogmatic truth.
This removed from the list of indulgenced prayers and good works, now called the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, [8] many prayers for which various religious institutes, confraternities and similar groups had succeeded in the course of centuries in obtaining grants of indulgences, but which could not be classified as among "the most important".
A crusade bull or crusading bull (Latin: bulla cruciata) was a papal bull that granted privileges, including indulgences, to those who took part in the Crusades against infidels. [1] [2] A bull is an official document issued by a pope and sealed with a leaden bulla. All crusade bulls were written in Latin.
Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a lead bulla The apostolic constitution Magni aestimamus issued as a papal bull by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 which instituted the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church.
Thomas W. Smith noted that it "has long been considered the pinnacle of twelfth-century papal letters." [12] Penny J. Cole described Audita tremendi as "perhaps the most emotive of all papal bulls", [13] while Jonathan Phillips called it "the most powerful and emotive crusade bull of all". [8]
The Bulls of Donation, also called the Alexandrine Bulls, and the Papal donations of 1493, are three papal bulls of Pope Alexander VI delivered in 1493 which granted overseas territories to Portugal and the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. A fourth bull followed later the same year, and all four bulls were replaced by the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.
Laudabiliter was a bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have served in that office. Existence of the bull has been disputed by scholars over the centuries; no copy is extant but scholars cite the many references to it as early as the 13th century to support the validity of its existence. [1]