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JUAN DE PALAFOX DE See also:MENDOZA (1600-1659)
, See also:Spanish See also:bishop, was See also:born in See also:Aragon
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He was appointed in 1839 bishop of Angelopolis (See also:Puebla de los Angeles) in See also:Mexico, and there honourably distinguished himself by his efforts to protect the natives from Spanish See also:cruelty, forbidding any methods of See also:con-version other than persuasion
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In this he met with the uncompromising hostility of the See also:Jesuits, whom in 1647 he laid under an See also:interdict
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He twice, in 1647 and 1649, laid a formal complaint against them at See also:Rome
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The See also:pope, however, refused to approve his censures, and all he could obtain was a brief from See also:Innocent X
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(May 14, 1648), commanding the Jesuits to respect the episcopal See also:jurisdiction
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In 1653 the Jesuits succeeded in securing his See also:translation to the little see of Osma in Old See also:Castile
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In 1694 See also: |
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