Aeterni Patris Filius (1621) on papal elections

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Aeterni Patris Filius is a 1621 papal bull by Pope Gregory XV that standardized and regulated the procedures for electing future popes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf apostolic constitution
papal bull
appliesTo College of Cardinals
papal conclave
author Pope Gregory XV
authority supreme pontifical authority
belongsToGenre ecclesiastical legislation
canonicalField electoral law
concerns order and discipline during conclave
validity of papal election
countryOfOrigin Papal States
documentForm solemn papal bull
ecclesiasticalRankOfAuthor pope
followedBy Decet Romanum Pontificem (as a later bull of Gregory XV, though on a different subject)
hasCanonicalStatus part of historical papal election law
hasEffectOn subsequent papal election law
historicalPeriod 17th century
influenced later papal election constitutions such as Universi Dominici Gregis
inForceAtTimeOf 17th-century papal conclaves
isPartOf corpus of papal bulls on conclaves
issuedBy Holy See
Pope Gregory XV
jurisdiction Catholic Church
language Latin
legalStatus canon law document
namedAfter opening Latin words of the document
placeOfPromulgation Rome
promulgationDate 1621
promulgationYear 1621
purpose to regulate papal conclaves
to standardize the procedures for electing popes
regulates formalities of the conclave
procedures for electing the pope
voting methods in papal conclaves
relatedTo College of Cardinals
Roman Curia
papal succession
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
subject conclave procedures
papal elections
targetAudience cardinals of the Roman Church
officials of the Roman Curia
typeOfNorm universal law for papal elections

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Pope Gregory XV issuedDocument Aeterni Patris Filius (1621) on papal elections
Alessandro Ludovisi notableAction promulgated the bull Aeterni Patris regulating papal elections
subject linked to: Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi
linked to: Aeterni Patris Filius (1621) on papal elections