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CRISTOVAL ROJAS DE SPINOLA (d. 1695)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPINOLA (d. 1695)  , See also:Spanish ecclesiastic, was See also:general of the Franciscan See also:order in See also:Madrid . He went to See also:Vienna as See also:confessor to theSpanish wife of See also:Leopold I., and became See also:bishop of Wienerisch-See also:Neustadt in 1685 . He endeavoured to reconcile the See also:Protestant churches with the See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and at a See also:conference at See also:Hanover in '683 presented his Regulae circa Christianorum, omnium ecclesiastzcum reunionem . The See also:Helmstedt theologians, represented by See also:Gerhard Molanus (1633-1722), at the same See also:time put forward their siifethodus reducendae unionis . The discussions were approved by the See also:pope and the See also:emperor, but had no popular feeling behind them, and though the negotiations were continued for ten years, especially between Molanus on the one See also:side and See also:Bossuet on the other, no agreement was reached, for the Protestants could not accept the See also:Council of See also:Trent as authoritative or surrender the See also:matter of communion under both See also:species . See also:Spinola died on the 12th of See also:March 1695 .

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