First Mexican Provincial Council

The First Mexican Provincial Council was a 1555 provincial council of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Mexico.

Attendees

Alonso de Montúfar, the archbishop of Mexico, convoked the council on June 29, 1555. The other bishops in attendance were:^[1]

Martín Sarmiento de Osacastro, the bishop of Tlaxcala
Vasco de Quiroga, the bishop of Michoacán
Tomás Casillas, the bishop of Chiapas
Juan López de Zárate, the bishop of Oaxaca

Zárate died during the council.^[1]

Publications

The council published a 93-chapter document with its decrees.^[1] These rulings touched on a wide variety of topics. The council ordered missionaries to evangelize to Indians in the local language.^[2] Seminarians were instructed to own books such as the Summa Sylvestrina, the Summa Caietana, the Summa Angelica, the Manipulus curatorum, and the Summa confessionalis.^[3] Natives were banned from becoming priests,^[4] and indigenous songs and dances were restricted.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ Storch, Tanya (15 May 2017). Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-90478-0.
^ 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.
^ Patte, Daniel (6 October 2021). The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Volume Two. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 800. ISBN 978-1-6667-3484-3.
^ 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.

[dussel-1] 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.

[storch-2] Storch, Tanya (15 May 2017). Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-90478-0.

[galindo-3] 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.

[patte-4] Patte, Daniel (6 October 2021). The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Volume Two. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 800. ISBN 978-1-6667-3484-3.

[claassen-5] 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.

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