Ad extirpanda

Ad Extirpanda (Latin: to eradicate ) is a papal decretal. It was published IV on May 15, 1252 Pope Innocent. It is concerned with measures to combat heretics. It is known as the Ad Extirpanda adoption in which the papal side of the torture was permitted as a means of finding the truth in processes for the first time. Therefore, this decretal is an important document in the history of the Inquisition.

Addressees of the decretal are the municipal governments in the Romagna, Lombardy and Mark Treviso. The document is divided into 38 paragraphs. Content, the decretal is mainly a summary of the valid to date measures to heretics fighting, but also includes some additions, such as the fact that any new government should use after taking office, a commission for the detection of heretics (§ 3), which confirmed or elected members of the owned by them captive heretics move and these themselves should give the ecclesiastical jurisdiction ( § 4). The § § 23 and 24 regulate the conduct of proceedings. Within 15 days, the temporal power arrested heretics should be handed over to the ecclesiastical court, which was headed by appointed inquisitors or of acting as inquisitors bishops. After a conviction by the Inquisition, the temporal power should take the convicted within five days again to execute on them the judgment. By this definition of the sequence, the jurisdiction of the clergy working for the Inquisition is fixed for the heretics jurisdiction in Ad Extirpanda.

The section in § 25, which legitimizes the use of torture is:

" Teneatur praeterea potestas, seu rector, omnes quos haereticos captos habuerit, cogere, citra membri diminutionem et mortis periculum, [ ... ] errores Suos expresse fateri, et alios accusare haereticos quos sciunt [ ... ] "

" In addition to the Podestà ( city mansion ) or municipal officials all heretics, which he has caught, however without inflicting permanent physical damage or they die in the process, compel their errors explicitly to confess and accuse other heretics, they know. "

This heretic robbers, murderers and thieves are equated.

Source text

  • Ad Extirpanda: Text in: Mansi, Johannes Dominicus (ed.): Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima. Volume 23 Paris 1903 ( unaltered reprint: Graz 1961), 569-575 Sp.
  • Ad Extirpanda: Text excerpts in: Selge, Kurt- Victor ( ed.), texts Inquisition. Gütersloh, 1967 ( Texts for churches and theological history 4), p 77
  • Http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01p/1243-1254,_SS_Innocentius_IV,_Bulla_'Ad_Extirpanda'_[AD_1252-05-15],_LT.pdf Ad Extirpanda in Latin
  • Http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01p/1252-05-15,_SS_Innocentius_IV,_Bulla_'Ad_Extirpanda',_EN.pdf English translation
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