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 4
Mexican Inquisition trials 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic ecclesiastical court
inquisition
religious tribunal
abolishedBy liberal Spanish Cortes decrees
appliesToJurisdiction Central America (parts of New Spain)
linked to: Central America

New Spain
colonial Mexico
archivesAt Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
Archivo Histórico Nacional (Spain)
country Viceroyalty of New Spain
dissolved 1820
1821
endTime early 19th century
facetOf history of Mexico
history of the Catholic Church in Latin America
foundedBy Catholic Church
Spanish Crown
linked to: Crown of Spain
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
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
mainSubject Islam (Moriscos)
linked to: Moriscos

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
religion Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
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
Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition
uses censorship of books
confiscation of property
execution by burning (in some cases)
judicial torture
public penance rituals

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Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva associatedWith Mexican Inquisition
Carvajal family of New Spain subjectOf Mexican Inquisition trials
linked to: Mexican Inquisition
Carvajal family of New Spain persecutedBy Mexican Inquisition
Luis de Carvajal the Younger executedBy Mexican Inquisition
subject linked to: Carvajal family of New Spain
Francisca Núñez de Carvajal executedBy Mexican Inquisition
subject linked to: Carvajal family of New Spain