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  2. Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The papal inquisition developed a number of procedures to discover and prosecute heretics. These codes and procedures detailed how an inquisitorial court was to function. If the accused renounced their heresy and returned to the Church, forgiveness was granted and a penance was imposed.

  3. Pope Gregory IX - Wikipedia

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    In 1233, Gregory IX established the Papal Inquisition to regularize the prosecution of heresy. [8] The Papal Inquisition was intended to bring order to the haphazard episcopal inquisitions which had been established by Lucius III in 1184. Gregory's aim was to bring order and legality to the process of dealing with heresy, since there had been ...

  4. Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure where the ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly it became the name for various medieval and reformation -era State-organized tribunals whose aim was to combat heresy , apostasy , blasphemy , witchcraft , and customs considered to be ...

  5. Roman Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Inquisition, formally Suprema Congregatio Sanctae Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis (Latin for 'the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition'), was a system of partisan tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Catholic Church, during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crimes according ...

  6. Archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

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    After the archive of the Inquisition was returned to Rome in 1815, it expanded a great deal. Although the actual number of documents housed in the present archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is not known because documents dated after Pope Leo XIII's death, in 1903, are still closed to researchers, there are known to be 4,500 documents available to scholars up to that point.

  7. Fundamental Statute for the Secular Government of the States ...

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    The Fundamental Statute for the Secular Government of the States of the Church was the constitution of the Papal States conceded by Pope Pius IX [1] as a result of the 1848 revolutions. [ citation needed ] It was published on 14 March 1848.

  8. Papal Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 30 July 2006, at 13:35 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Inquisition in France - Wikipedia

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    The papal inquisition was restored in Languedoc after the death of Innocent IV on 7 December 1254. At the beginning of 1255, the Paris provincial of the Dominicans, under orders from Pope Alexander IV, appointed two inquisitors for the Toulouse region, and in 1259, two more Dominicans became inquisitors in Carcassonne. The Languedoc tribunals ...