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Index Librorum Prohibitorum

list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church from 1559 to 14 June 1966

6 dated entries naming Index Librorum Prohibitorum, drawn from 6 separate years between 1559 CE and 1966 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Congregation of the Index, Index of Forbidden Books in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 1559Pope Paul IV promulgates the Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.source
  • 1588January 22 – Pope Sixtus V issues the papal bull Immensa aeterni Dei, a major reorganization of the Roman Curia creating 15 congregations of cardinals, including the Congregation of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Church list of forbidden books; the Congregation of the Inquisition; and the Congregation of the Vatican Press.source

17th century

  • 1616March 5 – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, written by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, by the Congregation of the Index of the Roman Catholic Church "until corrected".source

18th century

  • 1757April 16 – The works of astronomer Galileo Galilei espousing heliocentrism are removed (with the approval of Pope Benedict XIV) from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum list of books banned by Roman Catholic Church, along with "all books teaching the earth's motion and the sun's immobility". Other works of heliocentrists Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Diego de Zúñiga and Paolo Foscarini remain on the list.source

20th century

  • 1948The last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican.source
  • 1966June 14 – The Vatican abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.source

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