The programs of Archbishop Carranza, the action of the Santo Oficio and the criticism to the Inquisition (1558-1559)

Abstract

The author studies the programs that made the archbishop of Toledo Bartolomé de Carranza and the Inquisition in the summer of 1558. He analyzes the respective supports they counted as well as the attempts to develop the programs, one in his archdiocese, the other through the court of Toledo. Carranza, defensive, provided intensive pastoral and tried to win over ecclesiastical elites of his archbishopric. The Inquisition, however, with a high degree of initiative, obtained new papal privileges that allowed its consolidation and the growth of a still weak apparatus for the new functions intended to assume. The arrest of the archbishop caused major reactions and criticisms to the Inquisition in the visible archbishopric in Talavera, a major urban center of the archbishopric of Toledo.