Therefore we command
all and singular the patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, and other
prelates of churches and palaces, even those of religious, throughout
the whole world, without fail to have these present letters observed
in their provinces, cities, dioceses, chapters, and jurisdictions,
besides whenever requested by the religious of the said orders to have
and see that the same be published solemnly, [99] notwithstanding to
the contrary any interdict, prohibitions, letters, or other premises
of our said predecessors, nor any apostolic or synodal decree, be
the same issued in provincial or general council, no matter whether
embodied in special or general constitutions and ordinances (even
in those granted to the Society of Jesus and the other said orders,
provinces and regions); no matter whether confirmed by apostolic pledge
or otherwise by statute, custom, privilege, or apostolic indult and
letters, even those granted by the pontiffs in the fulness of their
power, be the same general or special--all which, in so far as they
conflict with these our present letters, prohibition, and interdict,
wherefore they are to be considered as having been duly expressed and
inserted therein, we hereby desire and command shall be invoked in
favor of no one, no matter of what order, even though of the Society of
Jesus, but be held as null and void.
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