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DeutschSecond Mexican Provincial Council
The Second Mexican Provincial Council was a 1565 provincial council of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Mexico.
Topics
[edit]Alonso de Montúfar, the archbishop of Mexico, convened the council on November 8, 1565.[1] A major topic was the implementation of the decrees of the Council of Trent.[2]
The council petitioned Philip II of Spain to reduce the number of Indians allowed to work as musicians.[3] It reiterated the decree of the First Mexican Provincial Council that natives could not be ordained as priests.[4] Seminarians were instructed to own the Manual de confesores y penitentes of Martín de Azpilcueta.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Dussel, Enrique (1981). A History of the Church in Latin America: Colonialism to Liberation (1492-1979). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8028-2131-7.
- ^ Claassen, Cheryl; Ammon, Laura (10 February 2022). Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices. Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-009-00631-6.
- ^ Stevenson, Robert. Music in Aztec & Inca Territory. University of California Press. p. 169.
- ^ O'Hara, Matthew D. (2010). A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857. Duke University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8223-4639-5.
- ^ Galindo, Rex (22 January 2024). Bragagnolo, Manuela (ed.). The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores from a Global Perspective. Brill. p. 330. ISBN 978-90-04-68704-2.