First Mexican Provincial Council

Provincial Catholic council of the Mexican Church, 1555

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

## Attendees

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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

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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

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