Year Bull (Incipit) Translation Issued By Description
Ex commisso Excommunicates Saxon Pope at
1136 Innocent II
nobis Magdeburg
Gives English King Henry II lordship
1155 Laudabiliter Laudably Adrian IV
over Ireland
Recognition of the kingdom of
Manifestis Alexander
1179 Portugal and Afonso Henriques as the
Probatum III
first king
Gregory
1187 Audita tremendi Hearing what terrible Calls for the Third Crusade
VIII
1198 Post Miserabile Innocent III Calls for the Fourth Crusade
1213 Quia maior Innocent III Calls for the Fifth Crusade
Honorius
1216 Religiosam vitam The religious life Established the Dominican Order
III
Honorius
1223 Solet annuere Approves the Rule of St. Francis
III
Ille humani Creation of Inquisition under
1232 Gregory IX
generis Dominicans
Creates fear of witchcraft in Germany
1233 Vox in Rama A voice in Ramah Gregory IX
(Saxony)
Cum hora Since the eleventh First bull authorizing pagan friars to
1235 Gregory IX
undecima hour preach to pagan nations
Rome claimed primacy over Eastern
Innocent
1245 Cum simus super Churches- creating new orthodox
IV
church.
Innocent
1252 Ad exstirpanda For the elimination Authorizes the use of torture
IV
Named James II of Aragon as
Redeemer of the Boniface
1296 Redemptor mundi standardbearer, captain-general, and
world VIII
admiral
Excommunicates all members of the
Boniface
1296 Clericis Laicos Lay clerics clergy who refuse allegience to the
VIII
Holy See
Antiquorum fida Boniface Creates the Jubilee Years, granting
1300
relatio VIII indulgences
Boniface Creates 1st Express Trust in history
1302 Unam Sanctam The One Holy
VIII for whole Planet.
Pastoralis arrest of the Knights Templar and the
1307 Clement V
praeminentiæ confiscation of their possessions
1st Testamentary Deed & Will & 1st
1455 Romanus Pontifex The Roman pontiff Nicholas V
Crown over Land
2nd testamentary Deed & Will & 2nd
1481 Aeterni regis Eternal Crown Sixtus IV
Crown of People as Permanent Slaves
3rd Testamentary Deed & Will & 3rd
1537 Convocation Assembly Paul III
Crown over Souls
1540 Regimini To the Government of Paul III Creation of Jesuit Order
militantis the Church Militant
ecclesiae
1550 Exposcit debitum The Duty demands Julius III Additional powers of Jesuits