Ille humani generis
Gregory IX
25 June 1231
Instructed the Dominican prior of Regensburg to form an Inquisitional tribunal.
Innocent IV
15 May 1252
Authorized in limited and defined circumstances the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics.
Omnium Plasmatoris Domini
Martin V
1 March 1420
Calls for a crusade against followers of Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, and other heretics. It initiates the Hussite Wars.
Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus
Sixtus IV
1 November 1478
Authorizes the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile.
Leo X
3 January 1521
Excommunicating Martin Luther.
Regimini militantis ecclesiae
Paul III
27 September 1540
gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.
Exposcit debitum
Julius III
21 July 1550
gave a second and final approval to the foundation of the Society of Jesus and removing the earlier set limitation.
ver the years many papal bulls have been written. It is an official edict issued by the Pope of the Catholic Church. Pope Adeodatus I, also known as Deodatus I or Deusdedit, was the first Pope to use lead seals (bullae) on papal documents, which came to be known as papal bulls.