Ad supremum

fis in partibus Infidelium • aliaque privilegia confirmantur, & rispettivamente concedun-
BENEDICTUS PAPA XIV.
•Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.

1 Ad supremam equidem Apostolicae huius Sanctae Sedis, cuius servituti Pallorum Princeps Gesù Cristo Nos Imbecillitatis nostrae conscios per ineffabilem bonitatem suam mancipare dignatus est, auctoritatem, providentiam que pertinere intelligimus, ut non solum decora & privilegia, praerogativas, immunitate, & exemptiones, quibus alias legitime concedis singuli Ecclesiae pacifice fruuntur, confirmare, & augere dudeamus, verum etiam opportunam, naturamque, ad bene constitutum, Apostolicisque legibus praescriptum Ecclesiasticae Disciplinae ordinem in suo pristino decoro retinendum, conservandumque, si quo pacto per longas temporum vices immutari contigisset, operam nostram conferre satagimus.

2 I. Quoniam autem Cathedralis Ecclesia Papiae, quae olim Ticinum dicta, non tam vetustae antiquitatis, Longobardorum Regum Sedis, & tot Sanctorum Antistium pietate, literis, ac Martyrio insignium splendore, quam ipsa amplitudine, & omnimodae in populos sibi subjectos iurisdictione, inter praecipuas Italiae Ecclesias semper extitit, factum est, ut innumera prope modum privilegia cum latifundiis fortunis, aliisque amplissimis iuribus, Romani Pontifices, Imperatores, Reges Longobardorum, aliique Principes eidem Ecclesiae, eiusque Antistibus indulserint; Eapropter tot sane privilegia cum decoribus, praerogativis, dignitate, auctoritate, immunitatibus, exemptionibusque coniuncta, ac toties comprobata, atque confirmata iisdem Antistibus, qui Apostolicae huic Sanctae Sedi immediate subjecti sunt, Pallii certe usus, ac ius Crucem more Archiepiscoporum ante se gestandi, album equum conscendendi, ius a dextris in Conciliis Generalibus Summo Romano Pontifici assistendi, ius denique, quod etiam admirans refert clar. mem. Caesar Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalis Baronius, ut quotieseumque Ticinen sis Episcopus vocaret ad Synodum Archiepiscopos Mediolanensem, & Ravennatensem, cum Suffraganeis, venire omnino deberent, haec non immerito expostcerent, ut eandem Cathedralem Ecclesiam, exigentibus etiam eximiis Venerabilis Fratris Francisci eiusdem Cathedralis Papiensis Episcopi, in tuendis Ecclesiae Papiensis, ipsi spirituali coniugio iunctae, iuribus egregie meriti virtutibus, in Archiepiscopatum erigeremus.

3 2. Verum Nos, quibus nihil est antiquius, quam ut Venerabilem Ecclesiarum antiquitatem stabilem custodiamus, aequum, nec novum esse ducimus, si eidem Ecclesiae Cathedrali Papiensi, eiusque Antistiti pro tempore existenti aliquem titulum Archiepiscopi Bullar. Rom. Bened. XIV. Tom. I.

4 Ecclesiae Archiepiscopalis in partibus Infide- Anno lium sitae tribuamus, Archiepiscopalemque Ec- 1743 clesiam huiusmodi ipsi Papiensi Ecclesiae uniamus, & incorporemus: Ita enim fiet, ut eidem Episcopo Papiensi eo privilegiis munito, & Archiepiscopali dignitate adaucto, debitus locus, & honor in quibusvis Ecclesiasticis, Saecularibusque Consessibus deferatur.

5 3. Hinc est, quod Nos, Motu proprio, Archiepiscopi & ex certa scientia, ac matura deliberatione Auctoritate nostris, deque Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, tenore praesentium, Archiepiscopalem Ecclesiam Amasiae, quae Helenopoli Metropolis Turcorum Tyrannidi subiecta, quoad nominis honorem saltem conservari meretur, eidem Cathedrali Ecclesiae Papiensi unimus, & incorporamus, ac perpetuis futuris temporibus unitam, & incorporatam esse, ac fore declaramus, daturimus, decernimus, & ordinamus, ita ut non modo idem Venerabilis Frater Franciscus Papiae Episcopus, sed quicumque pro tempore in Episcopali Papiensi Cathedra ipsi successerit, una insimul nuncupetur, inscribatur, & sit Archiepiscopus Amasiensis, & Episcopus Papiensis, cum omnibus, & singulis iuribus ratione tum Episcopalis Ecclesiae Papiensis, cum Archiepiscopalis Ecclesiae Amasiae ad ipsum respective spectantibus; Nec propterea eumdem Archiepiscopum, & Episcopum, ad Archiepiscopalem Ecclesiam praedictam Amasiae, donec ab Infidelibus detinebitur, accedere, & apud eam personaliter residere minime teneri.

6 4. Praeterea volumus, & mandamus, ut idem Episcopus Papiensis, & Archiepiscopus Amasiensis, deinceps semper, ut antea, memoratae Apostolicae Sedi immediate subiectus intelligatur, nec iuxta Concilii Tridentini decretum, a Concilii Romani a fel. record. Benedicto PP. XIII. Praedecessore nostro celebrati, praescriptionem, sibi Metropolitanum, quem hactenus non elegit, imposterum eligere teneatur; nec Causae quaecumque Civitatis, & Dioecesis Papiensis ad quemvis, iure appellationis, nisi ad Apostolicam Sedem praedictam, deferantur.

7 5. Infine abbiamo stabilito e dichiariamo che lo stesso Francesco, attuale Vescovo di Pavia, per il tenore delle presenti, senza alcuna altra dichiarazione, ovvero spedizione di Lettere Apostoliche, di fatto sia e sia per essere Arcivescovo di Amasea, e possa e debba essere così denominato; e che al medesimo, per il tempo in cui presiederà alla Chiesa di Pavia, ogni volta che gli toccherà di presiedere agli Antistiti, per mezzo delle medesime Lettere Apostoliche sotto Piombo da spedirsi per la Chiesa di Pavia, debba conferirsi il titolo di Arcivescovo di Amasea, fatta sempre menzione di tale unione e incorporazione. Vogliamo e ordiniamo che questo titolo di Arcivescovo di Amasea così unito e incorporato sia e rimanga presso il Vescovo di Pavia pro tempore esistente, in modo che qualunque Vescovo di Pavia, se gli accadesse di essere trasferito dalla Chiesa Episcopale di Pavia a un'altra Chiesa Episcopale, lasciato il titolo di Arcivescovo di Amasea, debba ottenere e conseguire dalla predetta Sede Apostolica un altro titolo di un'altra Chiesa Arcivescovile. 6. Decernendo che le medesime presenti lettere e tutto ciò che in esse è contenuto, anche per il fatto che chiunque di qualsiasi dato grado, ordine,

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9 condizione, preminenza o dignità, ovvero altrimenti degno di specifica e individua menzione ed espressione, nei premessi in qualunque modo abbia o pretenda di avere interesse, non sia conforme ai medesimi premessi, né sia stato chiamato, citato, intimato o udito; tuttavia sebbene per la forza dei loro Indulti o privilegi avrebbe dovuto consentire, essere chiamato, citato, intimato e udito una o più volte in qualunque modo, o per qualsiasi altra causa giuridica, privilegiata e ragionevole, e anche tale che fosse necessario esprimere per l'effetto dei predetti premessi, occasione, colore, pretesto, titolo anche oneroso, e capo anche chiuso nel corpo del diritto, anche di enorme, enormissima e totale lesione, in nessun tempo possa essere notato, impugnato, infranto, invalidato, ritrattato, rescisso, portato in controversia, ridotto ai termini del diritto, o contro di esso intentato o imperato il rimedio dell'apertura della bocca, della restituzione in intero, o qualsiasi altro rimedio di diritto, di fatto o di grazia; né possa in alcun modo usare o avvalersi di alcuno di questi, sia in giudizio che fuori di esso, anche per moto, scienza e pienezza di potestà concesso a taluno; ma le medesime presenti lettere e tutto ciò che in esse è contenuto rimangano sempre fermo, valido ed efficace, e producano i loro pieni e interi effetti, e giovino pienamente al medesimo Francesco Arcivescovo e Vescovo e ai suoi Successori pro tempore in tutto e per tutto; e così, e non altrimenti nei premessi, da qualsiasi Giudici Ordinari e Delegati, anche Uditori delle Cause del Palazzo Apostolico e Cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa, anche Legati a Latere e Nunzi della Sede Apostolica, e da qualsiasi altri che esercitano qualsiasi preminenza e potestà, tolta a loro e a ciascuno di loro qualsiasi facoltà e autorità di giudicare e interpretare diversamente, debba giudicarsi e definirsi; e sia irritum e inane, se diversamente su questi da chiunque con qualsiasi autorità consapevolmente o inconsapevolmente fosse tentato.

10 7. Non ostante i premessi, e per quanto sia necessario, qualunque regola Nostra e della Cancelleria Apostolica edita in contrario dei premessi in qualunque modo, e altre Costituzioni, Ordinazioni generali o speciali edite negli Apostolici e negli Universali, Provinciali e Sinodali Concili, nonché le prerogative, i dati e le consuetudini delle medesime Chiese anche corroborate da giuramento, da conferma Apostolica o da qualsiasi altra fermezza, i privilegi anche concessi, e le Lettere Apostoliche in contrario dei premessi in qualunque modo concesse, confermate e rinnovate. Di tutte le quali cose, e di ciascuna di esse, sebbene per la loro sufficiente deroga fosse necessaria speciale, specifica, espressa e individua menzione, e di parola in parola, non però per clausole generali che importino lo stesso, o alcuna altra forma ricercata a questo scopo, i tenori di tutte e di ciascuna di esse, considerati come pienamente e sufficientemente espressi e inseriti di parola in parola nelle presenti,

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12 che altrimenti rimarrebbero nel loro vigore, per l'effetto dei premessi in questa sola occasione specialmente, espressamente, pienissimamente e amplissimamente deroghiamo, e vogliamo che sia derogato, e a tutti gli altri contrari in qualunque modo. Dato a Roma presso

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Testo latino

fis in partibus Infidelium • aliaquc privile* gia confirmantur , & refpe^live concedun-
BENEDICTUS PAPA XIV.
•Aid petjfftittm rti memtriam .

1 Ad fupremam equidem Apofiollcc hujus Sanax Sedis , cujus fervituti Pallorum Princeps Jesus Christus Nos Imbecillitatis noftrae conlclos per ineffabilem bonitatem fuam mancipare dignatus dl , au£loritatem , provi. dcnciamque pertinere intelligimus > ut non fo- Ium decora « privilegia , praerogativas , iramu» nitaies, & exemptiones, quibus alias legitime concedis finguU Ecclefix pacifice fruuniur, con* firmare, Sc augere dudeamus, verum etiam op> portunam , nHuuremque , ad bene conditu, cum, ApqdoUcifque legibus pneferiptum Eccle* fiadicz Difciplinz ordinem in fuo pridioo de» core retinendum , confervandumque , fi quo pa£lo per longas temporum vices immutari contigilTec , operam oodram conferre fatagamus .

2 I. Quoniam autem Cathedralia Ecclefia . Papiz , quz olim Ticinum di^ ed , non tam vetufue antiquitatis , Longobardorum Re* : gum Sedis , & toc Sanflorum Antidituin pie* uce , literis , ac Martyrio ioGgnium fj^endo* re , quam ipfii amplitudine , & omnitnoda io populos fibi fubje^os jurifdifliooe, inter prz cipuas Italiz Ecclefias femper extitit , faaum cd, ut innumera proroemodum privilegia cum latifundiis fortunis , aiiiique ampliffimis juribus, Romani Pontifices , Imperatores , Reges Longobardorum , aliique Principes eidem £c ciefia, ejufque Antiditibus indullerinc ; Eapropter tot fane privilegia cum decoribus , prorogativis , dignitate, au6loricate, immunitati hus , exemptionibufque conjunAa , ac toties comprobata, ataue confirmata iifdem Antiditibus, qui Apodnlicz huic Sanfilz Sedi immediate fubjefli funt , Pallii certe ufus , ac jus Crucem more Archiepifeoporum ante ie gedandi , album equum conlcendeodl , jus a deztris in Conciliis Generalibus Summo Romano Pontifici alfidendi , jus deniq^ue , quod etiam admirans refert clar. mem. Czlar oan£lz Kojiunz Eccicfiz Cardinalis Baronius , ut quo* tlefeumque TicinenGs Epifeopus vocaret ad Synodum Archiepifeopos Mediolanenfem, & Ravennarenfem, cum Suffraganeis , venire omnino deberem^ hzc non immerito expofeerene , ut camdem Cathedralera Ecclcfiam.^ exigentibus etiam eximiis Venerabilis Fratris Francifei ejufdem Cathedralis Papienfis Epilcopi , in tuendis Ecclefiz Papienfis , ipfi Ipirituali connubio junflz , juribus egregie meriti virtutibus , in Archiepifcopaium erigeremus .

3 . t. Verum Nos , t^uibus nihil ed antiquius , quam ut Venerabilem Ecclefiarum antiquitatem (labilem cudodiamus , zquum, nec novum cfTe ducimus , fi eidem Ecclefiz Cathedrali Papicnfl , ejufque Aotiffiti pro tempore exiilenti aliquem titulum Archiepifeopi Bullar. Rom. Bened.Xir.Tom. I.

4 Ecclefiz ArcKiepifcopalis in partibus Infide* An nO,, lium fitz tribuamus, Archiepifcopalemque Ec- 1743eleftam hujofmodi ipfi Papieoii Eccicfiz uniamus, 8t incorporemus: Ica enim ficc , ut eidem Epifeopo Papienfi coc privil^iismunito, & Archiepifcopali dignitate adauao , debitus locus, & honor in quibufvis Ecclefiaflicis, Szciilanbus Confeffibus deferatur.

5 3. Hinc ed, quod Nos, Motu proprio, AtKhi«r(C & ex certa fciemia , ac matura deliberatione Aa‘teV‘i« nodris , deque Ap^dolicz potedatis plcniiu- ^’"*^^*'** dine , tenore przfentium , Archiepifcopalcm lu* Ecclefiam Amafiz , quz Helenoponti Metropolis Turearum ^ Tyrannidi fubjefla , quoad nominis honorem falteni confervari meretur , eidem Cathedrali Ecctefiz Papienfi unimus, & incorporamus, ac perpetuis futuris temporibus unitam, & incorporatam efTc , ac fore declaramus, datuimus, decernimus, Si ordinamus* iuut non modo idem Venerabilis Frater Francifcus Papiz Epifeopus , fcd quicumque pro tempore in Epifcopali Papienfi Cathedra ipfi fuccelTerit , una inftmul nuncupetur , inferibatur , & fit Archiepifeopus Amafieofis , & Epifeopus Papienfis , cum omnibus , & fin* gulis juribus ratione tum Epifcopalis Ecclefiz Papienfis , cum Archiepifcopalis Ecclefiz A> mafienfis ad ipfum relpeflive fp^antibus ; Nec propeerea eumdem Archiepilcopum , & Epifeopum , ad Archiepilcopalem Ecclefiam przdiflam Amafiz , donec ao Infidelibus detinebitur, accedere , & apud eam pcrfonaliter refidere minime teneri.

6 ^ 4. Przterea volumus, & mandamus, ur Um4*m idem Epifeopus Papienfis , & Archiepifeopus Amafienfis , deinceps femper , uc antea , me- <»b|cA'oa« moratz Apodoticz Sedi immediate fubjcflus intelligatur, nec juxta Concilii Tridentini dccretum, A Concilii Romani a fel. record. Benedidlo PP. XIII. PrzdccefTore noflro celebrati , przfcriptioncm, fibi Metropolitanum , quem haflenus non el^ic , impoderum eligere teneatur * nec Caufz quzeumque Civitatis , Sc Dicecefis Papienfis ad quemvis , jure appellationis , nifi ad ApoAolicam Sedem przdiaam, deferantur.

7 5. Denique flacuimus , ac declaramus , i>* eumdem Francifcum modernum Epifeopum Pa. pieniem , tenore pnafentium, abfque uUa alia declaratione , five Apoiloiicarum Literaruni expeditione, re ipfa Archiepifeopum Amafien. fem effe , ac fore , Si nuncupari pofTe , ac debere * ipfius vero pro tempore Papienfi £lc. clefiz pr^acz przficiendis Antiditibus, toties, quoties przfici contigerit, per eafdem Apodolicas fub Plumbo pro Papienfi Ecclefia expediendas literas , titulum Archiepifeopi Ama* fienfis conferri debere, fa£la femper unionis , Si incorporationis hujusmodi mentione^ quem fane titulum Archiepifeopi Amafienfis ita unitum , & incorporatum efle , ac fore volumus ‘ ac przcipimus Epifeopo Papienfi pro tempore exiflenti , ut quicumque Papienfis Epi- Kopus , fi ipfum ab Ecclefia Epifcopali Papteofi ad aliam Epifcopalem Ecclefiam tranfferri evenerit, reticlo Archiepifeopi Amafienlis titulo, alium alterius Arcniepifcopalis Ec- [“q,*"**'** clcfiz titulum ab Apoffolica Sede przfaca impetrare, & obtinere debeat. iT^i^ ^ 6. Decernentes eafdem przfentes literas, & in eis contenta quzeumque, etiam ex eo, r<.rnb%tt quod quicumque cujufvis datus, gradus, ornnfcb T i; dinis.

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9 Awmo (iinis , e6ndicionis , pneeminentic > vel digni* 174^. tatis, feu alias fpeciiica, & individua mentio* fioo« , & expreflione digni , in pnemiflis qiK>* modoLibet jui , vcl interefle hat«mes, feu ha* b«re praetendentes , iifdem priemifUs non con* rcnferinc, nec ad ea vocati, citati, intimati , «ut auditi fuerint ; tamecfi fuorum Induito* rum , vel privilegiorum vigore , confentire , feu vocari , citari, imiman, & audiri femel , vel pluries quoguomodo debuiflenc, aut ex a* lia quacumque juridica, privilegiata, & ratio* nabili , ac etiam tali , quae ad efferum vati* dicatis przmiflbrum necelTario exprimenda fo ret , caufa, occaOonc , colore , praetextu , ti* tulo etiam onerofo, & capite etiam in corpore juris claufo , etiam enormis, enormiffinue, Ic totalis IseHonis , ullo unquam tempore de fubreptionis , vel obreptionis , auc nullitatii vitio, leu intentionis nodne, vel inierelTe ha* bentium confcnlus , aliove quolibet etiam ma. xiino, fubdantiali, elTentiali , formali, auc incogitato defe£lu notari, impugnari, infringi , invalidari , retraflari , rcfcindi, in concrovcrftam revcKari , ad terminos juris reduci , feu adverfus illas aperitionis Oris, reftitutionis ia integrum , aliudve quodcumque juris , fafli , vel gratiae remedium intentari, vel impetrari , feu etiam motu , fciencia , & poteflaiis pleni* nitudine paribus conceiTo quempiam in Judicio, vel extra illud uti , feu fe juvare nullatenus pofTe; Sed eafdem przfentes literas , & in eis contenta quaecumque , femper firma , valida , & efficacia exidere , dt fore, fuofque plenarios, & integros efferus fortiri , & obtinere, ac eidem Francifeo Archiepifeopo , 8c Epifeopo , & fuis pro tempore Succefloribus in omnibus , & per omnia pleniffime fuffra* gari ; Sicque , dc non aliter in prxmiffis per quofeumque Judices Ordinarios, Sc Delegatos, etiam Caufarum Palatii Apodolici Auditores , & San6)se Romanx Eccleliae Cardinales , etiam de Latere Legatos , & Apodolicae Sedis Nuncios , aliofve quoslibet quacumque praee* minentia , & potedace fungentes, & funfluros, fubtata cis, & eorum cuilibet quavis aliter ju> dicandi, 8c imerpreundi facultate, & au^o* ritate, judicari , & definiri debere ; ac irri* tum, & inane, fi fecus fuper his a quoquam quavis aufloricate fcienter, vel ignoranter con« tigeric attentari.

10 r> n 7' obftantibus praemiffis , & quate- »<». ' nus opus fit , quacumque Nodra , & Cancellarie Apodolies regula in contrarium premifforum quomodolibet edita , aliifque Apoftoli* cis, ac in Univerfalibus, Provincialibulque , & Synodalibus Conciliis editis generalibus , vel fpecialibus Conditutionibus, Ordinationibus , necnon dicarum Ecclefiarum etiam juramento , confirtnatione Apodolica, vcl qua. vis firmitate alia roboratis prerogativis , datutis , & confuetudinibus , privilegiis quoque induitis, & Literis Apodolicis in contrarium premiflorum quomodolibet conceffis , confirmatis , & innovatis . Quibus omnibus , 3c fingulls, etiamft pro fufficientl eorum derogatione , de illis , eorumque totis tenoribus , fpecialis, fpecifica , exprefla, & individua, ac de verbo ad verbum , non autem per claufulas generales idem importantes , mentio , feu quzvis alia expreffio nabenda , aut aliqua alia exquiflta forma ad hoc fervanda foret , illorum omnium, 8c fiogulorum tenores przfenti-

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Testo inglese

in the regions of the Infidels • and other privileges are confirmed, & respectively granted
POPE BENEDICT XIV.
•To the memory of the petitioner.

1 To the supreme authority indeed of the Apostolic See of this Holy See, to whose service the Prince of the Apostles Jesus Christ has deigned to bind Us, conscious of Our weakness, through His ineffable goodness, and to its providence we understand it pertains, that not only the honors & privileges, prerogatives, immunities, & exemptions, which elsewhere are legitimately granted to individual Churches and peacefully enjoyed, we should confirm and augment, but also that we should strive to apply our efforts to retain and preserve in its former dignity the fitting and proper order of ecclesiastical discipline, prescribed by Apostolic laws, if by any chance through long passages of time it should have been changed.

2 I. Since indeed the Cathedral Church of Pavia, which was formerly called Ticinum, not so much by reason of ancient antiquity, the See of the Lombard Kings, & the glory of so many Saints of old, piety, letters, and Martyrdom shining forth, as by its own amplitude, & complete jurisdiction over the peoples subject to it, has always been among the principal Churches of Italy, it has come to pass that innumerable privileges almost beyond number, together with vast lands, fortunes, and most ample rights, the Roman Pontiffs, Emperors, Kings of the Lombards, and other Princes have granted to the same Church and its Archbishops; For this reason so many privileges joined with honors, prerogatives, dignity, authority, immunities, exemptions, and so often approved and confirmed to the same Archbishops, who are immediately subject to this Apostolic Holy See, certainly the use of the Pallium, and the right to bear the Cross in the manner of Archbishops before oneself, to mount a white horse, the right to sit on the right hand in General Councils beside the Supreme Roman Pontiff, and finally the right, which also the illustrious of blessed memory, Cardinal Baronius of the Holy Roman Church, reports with admiration, that whenever the Bishop of Ticinum called the Archbishops of Milan and Ravenna to a Synod, with their Suffragans, they were absolutely bound to come; these not without reason demanded, that we should raise the same Cathedral Church, also at the exigent merits of the Venerable Brother Francis, Bishop of the same Cathedral Church of Pavia, distinguished in protecting the rights of the Church of Pavia, joined to him in spiritual union, to the Archiepiscopate.

3 2. But We, to whom nothing is more ancient than to preserve stable the venerable antiquity of Churches, judge it to be equitable and not new, if to the same Cathedral Church of Pavia, and to its Archbishop existing for the time being, we should grant some title of Archbishop Bullar. Rom. Bened. XIV. Tom. I.

4 of an Archiepiscopal Church situated in the regions of the Infidels, and unite and incorporate an Archiepiscopal Church of this kind to the Church of Pavia: thus indeed it shall be, that to the same Bishop of Pavia, furnished with these privileges, and elevated to Archiepiscopal dignity, due place and honor shall be shown in any ecclesiastical and secular assemblies.

5 3. Hence it is, that We, by Our own motion, by certain knowledge, and mature deliberation of Ours, and from the fullness of Apostolic power, by the tenor of these presents, the Archiepiscopal Church of Amaseia, which is the Metropolis of Helenopolis under the Tyranny of the Turks, as it deserves to be preserved at least in the honor of its name, we unite and incorporate to the same Cathedral Church of Pavia, and declare, give, decree, and ordain that it be and shall be united and incorporated in perpetuity for future times, so that not only the same Venerable Brother Francis, Bishop of Pavia, but whoever shall succeed him for the time being in the Episcopal Chair of Pavia, shall be called, inscribed, and be Archbishop of Amaseia, and Bishop of Pavia, with all and singular rights pertaining respectively to him both by reason of the Episcopal Church of Pavia and of the Archiepiscopal Church of Amaseia; Nor is the same Archbishop and Bishop on this account bound to proceed to the aforesaid Archiepiscopal Church of Amaseia, as long as it shall be held by the Infidels, and to reside there personally.

6 4. Furthermore we will and command, that the same Bishop of Pavia and Archbishop of Amaseia, henceforth always, as before, be understood to be immediately subject to the Apostolic See, nor according to the decree of the Council of Trent, and the prescription of the Council of Rome celebrated by Our Predecessor of blessed memory Pope Benedict XIII, shall he be bound to elect for himself a Metropolitan, whom he has not had hitherto, henceforth; nor shall any cases whatsoever of the City and Diocese of Pavia be brought to anyone by right of appeal, except to the aforesaid Apostolic See.

7 5. Finally we have decided and declared by the tenor of these presents, without any other declaration or expedition of Apostolic Letters, that the same Francis, the present Bishop of Pavia, is in fact and shall be Archbishop of Amaseia, and can and ought to be called by that name; and that his successors, whoever shall preside over the Church of Pavia for the time being, shall have the title of Archbishop of Amaseia conferred upon them by the same Apostolic Letters under Lead to be expedited for the Church of Pavia, as often as it shall happen that they are appointed, with mention always being made of this union and incorporation. We will and command that this title of Archbishop of Amaseia, thus united and incorporated, shall be so bound to the Bishop of Pavia for the time being, that whenever a Bishop of Pavia shall happen to be transferred from the Episcopal Church of Pavia to another Episcopal Church, leaving behind the title of Archbishop of Amaseia, he ought to obtain and acquire from the Apostolic See aforesaid another title of a different Archiepiscopal Church. 6. Decreeing that these same present letters and whatever is contained in them, even from the fact that anyone of whatever rank, order,

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9 condition, preeminence, or dignity, or otherwise requiring specific and individual mention and expression, in the premises in whatever manner, or having or claiming to have interest in the same, should not agree with the same premises, nor having been called, cited, intimated, or heard; nevertheless, by the force of their indults or privileges, they ought to have consented, or been called, cited, intimated, and heard once or several times in whatever manner, or from any other juridical, privileged, and reasonable cause, occasion, color, pretext, title, even burdensome, and even in a chapter closed in the body of law, even of enormous, most enormous, and total loss, at no time whatsoever on account of the vice of subreptiousness or obreption, or nullity, or the dissent of those having intention or interest, or any other whatsoever even maximum, substantial, essential, formal, or unforeseen defect to be noted, impugned, infringed, invalidated, retracted, rescinded, brought into controversy, reduced to the terms of law, or against them the remedy of opening of the mouth, restitution in full, or any other whatsoever remedy of law, fact, or grace to be attempted or obtained, or even by motu proprio, knowledge, and fullness of power granted equally in judgment or outside it to be used or to avail oneself in no way; but these same present letters and whatever is contained in them shall always remain firm, valid, and efficacious, and shall obtain and secure their full and complete effects, and shall most fully suffice for the same Francis as Archbishop and Bishop, and for his successors for the time being in all things and through all things; and thus, and not otherwise in the premises by whatever Ordinary Judges and Delegates, even Auditors of Cases of the Apostolic Palace and Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, even Legates a Latere and Nuncios of the Apostolic See, or any others whatsoever exercising and about to exercise any preeminence and power, being subtracted from them and from each of them any faculty and authority of judging and interpreting otherwise, it ought to be judged and determined; and if anything contrary to this should be attempted by anyone whatsoever with any authority, knowingly or unknowingly, it shall be null and void.

10 7. Notwithstanding the premises, and insofar as it is necessary, any rule of Our and the Apostolic Chancery made to the contrary of the premises in whatever manner, and other Apostolic and in Universal, Provincial, and Synodal Councils issued general or special Constitutions, Ordinances, as well as prerogatives of the said Churches even confirmed by oath, Apostolic confirmation, or any other firmness, statutes and customs, privileges also granted and Apostolic Letters in whatever manner granted, confirmed, and renewed to the contrary of the premises. All and singular of which, even if for their sufficient derogation, of them and their whole tenors, special, specific, express, and individual mention, or any other expression, or some other exquisite form to be observed for this would be necessary, the tenors of all and singular of them being held as fully and sufficiently expressed in these presents, and inserted word for word, otherwise remaining in their force, for the effect of the premises on this occasion only specially and expressly, and most fully and most amply we derogate, and will that they be derogated, and to all other things contrary whatsoever. Given at Rome at

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12 fully, and sufficiently expressed, and having them inserted word for word from the Pope's own words, those others remaining otherwise in their force, to the aforesaid effect we derogate on this occasion only specially, and expressly, and most fully, and most amply, and we will them to be derogated, and to all other things contrary whatsoever. Given at Rome near

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