Roman Inquisition

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The Roman Inquisition was a system of tribunals established by the Catholic Church in the 16th century to combat heresy and enforce doctrinal orthodoxy, particularly in response to the Protestant Reformation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic ecclesiastical tribunal
inquisition
judicial institution of the Catholic Church
alsoKnownAs Holy Office
Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition
appliesToJurisdiction Catholic clergy
Catholic laity
Catholic territories under papal authority
Italian Jews (in matters of conversion and censorship)
Italian peninsula
linked to: Italian Peninsula

Papal States
country Papal States
dissolved 20th century (through institutional transformation into the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
followedBy Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
foundedBy Pope Paul III
hasCause Protestant Reformation
linked to: Reformation
hasCharacteristic centralized control from Rome
greater procedural regularity than some medieval inquisitions
hasEffect control of religious dissent in the Papal States
enforcement of Catholic moral discipline
suppression of open Protestant communities in Italy
hasPart central congregation in Rome
local inquisitorial tribunals
hasPurpose censor books
combat heresy
enforce Catholic doctrine
headquartersLocation Rome
inception 1542
location Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio, Rome
mainSubject doctrinal orthodoxy
heresy
opposedTo Calvinism
Judaizing practices among converts
Lutheranism
Protestantism
magic and superstition
witchcraft (in some cases)
parentOrganization Roman Curia
partOf Counter-Reformation
religion Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
replacedBy Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
significantEvent condemnation of heliocentrism in 1633
establishment of the Index of Forbidden Books
trial of Galileo Galilei
linked to: Galileo affair
timePeriod 16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
uses ecclesiastical trials
handing over condemned persons to secular authorities for capital punishment
imprisonment as penalty
interrogation and examination of witnesses
penitential sentences
theological censure

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Pope Paul IV supported Roman Inquisition
Index of Forbidden Books regulatedBy Roman Inquisition
Index of Forbidden Books relatedTo Roman Inquisition
Giordano Bruno convictedBy Roman Inquisition
Giordano Bruno participantIn Roman Inquisition trial of Giordano Bruno
linked to: Roman Inquisition
Roman Inquisition theologians partOf Roman Inquisition
Mary Ward opposedBy Roman Inquisition
Santa Maria sopra Minerva usedBy Roman Inquisition