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The Inquisition
Catholic AnswerNo, the Spanish Inquisition has no authority over anyone other than baptised Christians who were members of the Catholic Church.
The Spanish Inquisition was not an external conquest : it was the suppression of non-Christians within Spain. At the time, the Catholic Church had considerable official power among countries, especially Catholic ones like Spain.
The Catholic Inquisition took place around 1550. Hope this helped!
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That would be the SPANISH INQUISITION, which was instituted to ferret out and torture Catholics who were not "true believers", usually former Jews, former Muslims, and closet Protestants.
A church court which investigated, tried and convicted heretics was the Inquisition.Roman Catholic AnswerThe Inquisition.
The Inquisition was started by the Spanish government with the support of the Catholic Church.
Vicious purges and attacks on Protestants by the Catholic Church caused many protestants to flee to Britain and the Americas. However there are still plenty of Protestants left in Europe and several Protestant countries.
No. The Spanish monarchy has always been Catholic. Protestants in Spain were immediately targeted by the (already-existing) Spanish Inquisition and tortured. This prevented Protestantism from ever gaining a foothold in Iberia.
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No. The Inquisition was a Catholic institution that sniffed out heretics and 'insincere' converts from Judaism and Islam.