Regimini militantis ecclesiae

With the founding bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae (Eng. " For Government of the Warring Church " ) on 27 September 1540 by Pope Paul III. , The Jesuit order was confirmed.

Order Basics

On May 3rd 1539 had the companions to Ignatius of Loyola, after she had decided to live in a religious together, summarized the results of their deliberations. The Congregation called himself "Company ( Compania de ) Jesus " and their religious founders put the end of June 1539 "Summa Instituti ", the Urentwurf the Order statutes together.

Approval

Pope Paul III. commissioned the Dominican Tommaso Badia with the examination of the rules of the order and confirmed in 1539 orally, according to the advocacy by Badia, the founding of the order and its rule. But not until almost a year later, the cop ' Regimini militantis ecclesiae ' at the Palace of San Marco was made ​​out in her the "Summa Instituti " was recorded.