Mexican Inquisition
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The Mexican Inquisition was a tribunal of the Catholic Church established in New Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, targeting heresy, crypto-Judaism, and other perceived deviations from Catholic doctrine during the colonial period.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mexican Inquisition canonical | 1 |
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic ecclesiastical court
ⓘ
inquisition ⓘ religious tribunal ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | liberal Spanish Cortes decrees ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Central America (parts of New Spain)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial Mexico ⓘ |
| archivesAt |
Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Archivo Histórico Nacional (Spain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved |
1820
ⓘ
1821 ⓘ |
| endTime | early 19th century ⓘ |
| facetOf |
history of Mexico
ⓘ
history of the Catholic Church in Latin America ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Catholic Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
censorship of religious and philosophical ideas
ⓘ
close collaboration between church and crown ⓘ focus on Old Christian purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) ⓘ regulation of moral behavior ⓘ targeting conversos suspected of Judaizing ⓘ |
| hasMainOrgan | tribunal in Mexico City ⓘ |
| hasPart |
autos-da-fé
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ecclesiastical prisons ⓘ local commissariats ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Mexico City ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Spanish colonial period in Mexico ⓘ |
| inception | 1571 ⓘ |
| influenced |
censorship practices in New Spain
ⓘ
religious culture in colonial Mexico ⓘ social attitudes toward conversos and minorities ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm |
ecclesiastical court
ⓘ
royal institution ⓘ |
| location | Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Islam (Moriscos)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ bigamy ⓘ blasphemy ⓘ crypto-Judaism ⓘ heresy ⓘ indigenous religious practices (to a limited extent) ⓘ religious orthodoxy ⓘ sorcery ⓘ |
| objective |
control religious dissent
ⓘ
enforce Catholic orthodoxy ⓘ suppress heresy ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Enlightenment-influenced reformers ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| significantEvent |
first auto-da-fé in Mexico City in 1574
ⓘ
persecution of English and Dutch Protestants in New Spain ⓘ suppression of certain indigenous religious leaders ⓘ temporary suspension during liberal reforms in Spain in 1812 ⓘ trials of crypto-Jews in the late 16th and 17th centuries ⓘ |
| startTime | 1571 ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Spanish monarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
censorship of books
ⓘ
confiscation of property ⓘ execution by burning (in some cases) ⓘ judicial torture ⓘ public penance rituals ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.