The Second Mexican Provincial Council was a 1565 provincial council of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Mexico.
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Alonso de Montúfar, the archbishop of Mexico, convened the council on November 8, 1565. A major topic was the implementation of the decrees of the Council of Trent.
The council petitioned Philip II of Spain to reduce the number of Indians allowed to work as musicians. It reiterated the decree of the First Mexican Provincial Council that natives could not be ordained as priests. Seminarians were instructed to own the Manual de confesores y penitentes of Martín de Azpilcueta.
References
- Dussel, Enrique (1981). A History of the Church in Latin America: Colonialism to Liberation (1492-1979). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8028-2131-7.
- Claassen, Cheryl; Ammon, Laura (10 February 2022). Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices. Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-009-00631-6.
- Stevenson, Robert. Music in Aztec & Inca Territory. University of California Press. p. 169.
- O'Hara, Matthew D. (2010). A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857. Duke University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8223-4639-5.
- Galindo, Rex (22 January 2024). Bragagnolo, Manuela (ed.). The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores from a Global Perspective. Brill. p. 330. ISBN 978-90-04-68704-2.