Exponi nobis

Exponi nobis nuper fecisti, known in New Spain as Omnimoda, was a papal bull commissioned by Charles V and promulgated by Adrian VI on 10 May 1522.[1][2] The bull allowed members of mendicant orders in the New World to exercise "almost all episcopal authority" when no diocesan bishop was within two days' travel.[1] These powers were later confirmed at the Council of Trent.[3]

Under the authority of Omnimoda, missionary priests such as Martín de Valencia and Diego de Landa acted as agents of the Inquisition in the Americas.[1] The bull also gave missionaries the authority to dispense local Catholics from impediments to marriage.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Greenleaf, Richard E. (October 1965). "The Inquisition and the Indians of New Spain: A Study in Jurisdictional Confusion". The Americas. 22 (2): 138–166. doi:10.2307/979238. ISSN 0003-1615. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  2. ^ Jeanne, Boris (2013). "The Franciscans of Mexico : Tracing Tensions between Rome and Madrid in the provincia del Santo Evangelio (1454-1622)". In Giannini, Massimo Carlo (ed.). Papacy, religious orders, and international politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. pp. 1–250. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  3. ^ Spicer, Andrew (5 December 2016). Parish Churches in the Early Modern World. Routledge. p. 1486. ISBN 978-1-351-91276-1.
  4. ^ Gu, Weiying (2001). Missionary Approaches and Linguistics in Mainland China and Taiwan. Leuven University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-90-5867-161-5.