Papal Secretariat - Papal Secretariat

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［History］
The Holy See originally consisted of the Pope's personal priests and the bishops in the vicinity of Rome, but as the Church developed it expanded and differentiated, and in the 11th century it came to be called the Roman Curia. Until just before the reforms of Pope Paul VI (1967), it was composed of 12 Congregations, three courts (the Court of Penitence, the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation), and five offices (the Congregation of the Pontifical Office, the Congregation of Pontifical Grace, which handles the allocation of stipends, the Congregation of the Treasury, the Secretariat of State, and the Congregation of Letters). Many of the Congregations were established in the 16th century, but the predecessor of the oldest Congregation, the Congregation of Inquisition, established in 1542, was the 13th century Inquisition.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Pontifical Office" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

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［沿革］
　教皇庁は本来教皇の御付司祭とローマ近隣の司教たちから成っていたが，教会の発展とともに拡大，分化し，11世紀からローマ教皇庁Curia Romanaと呼ばれるようになった。パウルス6世による改革(1967)直前までは，12の聖省と三つの裁判所(赦免院，控訴院，大審院)と五つの官署(教皇官房庁，聖職禄の配分などを扱う教皇授恵庁，教皇財務庁，国務省，文書書簡庁)を中心に構成されていた。聖省は16世紀に作られたものが多いが，1542年設置の最古の聖省〈検邪聖省〉の前身は13世紀の異端審問所である。…

※「教皇官房庁」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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