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Decretals (Latin:
litterae decretales) are
letters of a pope that
formulate decisions in
ecclesiastical law of the
Catholic Church. They are generally...
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dating schemes,
which placed the
False Decretals in the 840s or
early 850s, were
essentially correct.
Several decretal forgeries contain material that aims...
- The
Directa decretal was
written by Pope
Siricius in
February AD 385. It took the form of a long
letter to
Spanish bishop Himerius of
Tarragona replying...
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Directa decretal,
containing decrees of baptism,
church discipline and
other matters. His are the
oldest completely preserved papal decretals. He is sometimes...
- The
Decretals of
Gregory IX (Latin:
Decretales Gregorii IX), also
collectively called the
Liber extra, are a
source of
medieval Catholic canon law. In...
- Emperor. As a
canon lawyer, he was sent to
Orvieto in 1527 to
secure a
decretal commission from Pope
Clement VII to
allow the king's
divorce case to be...
- [P]ope thenceforth, so far as the
Western Church was concerned." In a
decretal of 1173, Pope
Alexander III
reprimanded some
bishops for
permitting veneration...
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Decretum Gelasianum) is a
Latin text
traditionally thought to be a
decretal of the
prolific Pope
Gelasius I (492-496). The work
consists of five chapters:...
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antiquae is a set of five
collections of
twelfth and
thirteenth century decretals (specifically extravagantes)
totalling between 1,971 and 2,139 chapters...
- a
papal decretal promulgated in 1317 by Pope John XXII
forbidding the
practice of alchemy. The
rationale provided for the ban in the
decretal is not a...
