Second Mexican Provincial Council
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.{{cite book |last1=Dussel |first1=Enrique |title=A History of the Church in Latin America: Colonialism to Liberation (1492-1979) |date=1981 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0-8028-2131-7 |page=56 |language=en}} A major topic was the implementation of the decrees of the Council of Trent.{{cite book |last1=Claassen |first1=Cheryl |last2=Ammon |first2=Laura |title=Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices |date=10 February 2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-00631-6 |page=54 |language=en}}
The council petitioned Philip II of Spain to reduce the number of Indians allowed to work as musicians.{{cite book |title=Music in Aztec & Inca Territory |publisher=University of California Press |last1=Stevenson |first1=Robert |page=169 |language=en}} It reiterated the decree of the First Mexican Provincial Council that natives could not be ordained as priests.{{cite book |last1=O'Hara |first1=Matthew D. |title=A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857 |date=2010 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4639-5 |page=74 |language=en}} Seminarians were instructed to own the {{lang|es|Manual de confesores y penitentes}} of Martín de Azpilcueta.{{cite book |last1=Galindo |first1=Rex |editor1-last=Bragagnolo |editor1-first=Manuela |title=The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores from a Global Perspective |date=22 January 2024 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-68704-2 |page=330 |language=en}}