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108 entries, in chronological order by start of the period.

• 380-385 · 5 years

  Execution of Priscillian in 385, the first execution of Christians for heresy, on the accusation of bishops

  • Germany
  • Spain
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
• 517-816 · 299 years

  Serfs and slaves owned by churches and monasteries in the early Middle Ages

  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • Slavery
• 750-1440 · 690 years

  Donation of Constantine, a forged charter on papal rights of rule

  • France
  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Forgery
• 1095-1291 · 196 years

  Crusades to the East

  • Germany
  • France
  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Palestine
  • Syria
  • Turkey
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Violence
  • Crusade
  • Murder
• Person 1180-1233 · about 53 years old

  Conrad of Marburg, papal persecutor of heretics in Germany

  • Germany
  • Violence
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
• 1184-1699 · 515 years

  Persecution of the Waldensians

  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Heresy trials
  • Crusade
  • Persecution
• 1199-1917 · 718 years

  Prohibition and restriction of the Bible in the vernacular for lay people

  • France
  • Spain
  • Vatican City
  • Censorship
• 1204 · less than 1 year

  Sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade

  • Turkey
  • Admission
  • Violence
  • Crusade
• 1209-1229 · 20 years

  Albigensian Crusade

  • France
  • Violence
  • Crusade
  • Persecution
• 1215-1592 · 377 years

  Fourth Lateran Council: compulsory badge for Jews

  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Hungary
  • Vatican City
  • United Kingdom
  • Austria
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Persecution
• 17 Mar 1230-27 May 1234 · 4 years

  Crusade against the Stedingers 1232 to 1234, peasants on the Lower Weser declared heretics for refusing to pay dues

  • Germany
  • Crusade
  • Persecution
• 1231-1542 · 311 years

  The Inquisition: origins, procedure, punishments

  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Vatican City
  • Expropriation
  • Torture
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
• 1233-1966 · 733 years

  Book burnings and the Index of Forbidden Books

  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Persecution
  • Censorship
• 1300-1562 · 262 years

  Sale of indulgences, forgiveness of sins for money

  • Germany
  • Vatican City
  • United Kingdom
  • Financial misconduct
• 1307-1314 · 7 years

  Arrest, torture and burning of the Templars

  • France
  • Torture
  • Heresy trials
  • Murder
• 1337-1338 · 1 year

  Deggendorf 1337/38, murder of the Jewish community over an alleged desecration of the host and a pilgrimage lasting centuries

  • Germany
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Murder
• Person 1369-1415 · about 46 years old

  Jan Hus

  • Czechia
  • Admission
  • Heresy trials
• Person 1412-1431 · about 19 years old

  Joan of Arc

  • France
  • Heresy trials
  • Rehabilitation
• Person 1420-1498 · about 78 years old

  Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain

  • Spain
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Murder
  • Persecution
• 1430-1793 · 363 years

  Witch hunts in Europe

  • Germany
  • France
  • Poland
  • Switzerland
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • Torture
  • Murder
  • Persecution
• Person 1 Jan 1431-18 Aug 1503 · 72 years old

  Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia)

  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Vatican City
  • Expropriation
  • Financial misconduct
• 1452-2023 · 571 years

  Papal bulls on conquest and enslavement and the "Doctrine of Discovery"

  • Bolivia
  • Portugal
  • Vatican City
  • Admission
  • Expropriation
  • Colonialism
  • Slavery
• Person 21 Sep 1452-23 May 1498 · 45 years old

  Girolamo Savonarola

  • Italy
  • Torture
  • Heresy trials
  • Murder
• 23 Mar 1475-20 Jun 1478 · 3 years

  Ritual murder trial of Trent 1475, the Jewish community is tortured and executed after the death of the child Simon

  • Italy
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Torture
  • Persecution
• Person 28 Jun 1476-18 Aug 1559 · 83 years old

  Pope Paul IV (Gian Pietro Carafa)

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Expropriation
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
• 1478-1834 · 356 years

  Spanish Inquisition

  • Spain
  • Admission
  • Torture
  • Persecution
• Person 10 Nov 1483-18 Feb 1546 · 62 years old

  Martin Luther

  • Germany
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Heresy trials
• 23 May 1536-31 Mar 1821 · 284 years

  Portuguese Inquisition

  • Brazil
  • India
  • Portugal
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Expropriation
  • Torture
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
• 21 Jul 1542-7 Dec 1965 · 423 years

  Roman Inquisition (Holy Office)

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Heresy trials
  • Persecution
  • Censorship
• Person 1548-1600 · about 52 years old

  Giordano Bruno

  • Italy
  • Heresy trials
  • Murder
• 1555-1870 · 315 years

  Ghetto of Rome in the Papal States

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Persecution
• Person 15 Feb 1564-8 Jan 1642 · 77 years old

  Galileo Galilei

  • Italy
  • Admission
  • Heresy trials
  • Censorship
• 1569 · less than 1 year

  Bull "Hebraeorum gens" 1569, Pope Pius V expels the Jews from the Papal States

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Expropriation
  • Persecution
• 1571-1776 · 205 years

  Spanish Inquisition in the Americas (Mexico, Lima, Cartagena)

  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Heresy trials
  • Colonialism
  • Persecution
• 24 Aug 1572-3 Oct 1572 · 41 days

  St Bartholomew's Day Massacre 1572 and the reaction in Rome

  • France
  • Vatican City
  • Murder
  • Persecution
• 1577-1847 · 270 years

  Compulsory sermons for Jews, Gregory XIII obliges them in 1577 and 1584 to listen to conversion sermons

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Persecution
• 1601-1878 · 277 years

  Castrati in the papal choir of the Sistine Chapel from 1601

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Violence
• 1731-1732 · 1 year

  Expulsion of the Salzburg Protestants 1731/32 by Prince-Archbishop Firmian

  • Austria
  • Expropriation
  • Persecution
• 1838 · less than 1 year

  Sale of 272 enslaved people by the Jesuits in Maryland

  • United States
  • Slavery
• 23 Jun 1858 · 1 day

  Mortara case 1858, a Jewish child is taken from his parents on the orders of the Inquisition

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Forced adoption
• 1883-1999 · 116 years

  Residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada

  • Canada
  • Violence
  • Colonialism
  • Sexual abuse
• 1914-2000 · 86 years

  Abuse in Irish homes and industrial schools (Ryan Report)

  • Ireland
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
• 1917-1981 · 64 years

  Scotland, Smyllum Park and Bellevue, children's homes of the Daughters of Charity 1917 to 1981 (Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry 2018)

  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
• 1922-2003 · 81 years

  Crimen sollicitationis, secret instruction of the Holy Office on abuse cases involving clergy (1922, 1962)

  • Vatican City
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1922-1996 · 74 years

  Magdalen Laundries in Ireland (McAleese Report)

  • Ireland
  • Violence
  • Forced labour
• 1922-1998 · 76 years

  Homes for unmarried mothers and their children in Ireland (Mother and Baby Homes)

  • Ireland
  • Violence
  • Forced adoption
• 11 Feb 1929 · 1 day

  Lateran Treaties of 1929 between the Holy See and Mussolini's government

  • Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Agreements with dictatorships
• 1933-1984 · 51 years

  Scotland, children's homes of the Sisters of Nazareth 1933 to 1984 (Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry 2019)

  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
• 20 Jul 1933 · 1 day

  Reich Concordat of 1933 between the Holy See and the German Reich

  • Germany
  • Vatican City
  • Agreements with dictatorships
• 1939-1989 · 50 years

  Stolen newborns in Spain (niños robados)

  • Spain
  • Forced adoption
• 1939-1945 · 6 years

  Slovak State under the priest Jozef Tiso 1939 to 1945, disenfranchisement and deportation of the Jews

  • Slovakia
  • Anti-Judaism
  • Expropriation
  • Persecution
• 1939-1945 · 6 years

  Forced labourers in Catholic institutions in the German Reich 1939-1945

  • Germany
  • Admission
  • Forced labour
• 1940-2002 · 62 years

  Sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston (Attorney General's report 2003)

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1941-2019 · 78 years

  Legionaries of Christ: abuse by the founder Marcial Maciel and other priests

  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Spain
  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2022 · 77 years

  Sexualised violence in the Diocese of Mainz since 1945 (EVV study)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2020 · 75 years

  Sexual abuse by clerics in the Diocese of Münster (study by the University of Münster)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2023 · 78 years

  Diocese of Osnabrück and Archdiocese of Hamburg, University of Osnabrück study on sexualised violence since 1945 (2024)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2022 · 77 years

  Diocese of Passau, University of Passau study on sexual abuse and physical violence by clergy 1945 to 2022

  • Germany
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2019 · 74 years

  Diocese of Würzburg, expert report of 2025 commissioned by the Independent Commission for Reappraisal (1945-2019)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2010 · 65 years

  Sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in the Netherlands (Deetman Commission)

  • Netherlands
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-2019 · 74 years

  Sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (expert report 2022)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1945-1956 · 11 years

  Child migration to Australia: Catholic agencies sent children from England to institutions of the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Nazareth (IICSA 2018)

  • Australia
  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
• 1945-1992 · 47 years

  Violence and sexual abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen (Weber Report)

  • Germany
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1946-2019 · 73 years

  Archdiocese of Berlin, expert report of 2021 on sexual abuse by clerics since 1946

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1946-2014 · 68 years

  Sexual abuse by Catholic clerics in Germany (MHG study)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1946-2002 · 56 years

  Archdiocese of Philadelphia, grand jury report of 2005 on abuse by 63 priests and cover-up by Cardinals Krol and Bevilacqua

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1947-1951 · 4 years

  Ratline via Rome: the priest Draganović and the escape of Klaus Barbie

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Croatia
  • Austria
  • Escape aid for war criminals
• 1948-1991 · 43 years

  Scotland, Benedictine schools Fort Augustus and Carlekemp 1948 to 1991 (Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry 2021)

  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2010 · 60 years

  Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Belgium (parliamentary report 2011)

  • Belgium
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2019 · 69 years

  Sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Colorado (Special Master's report 2019)

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2019 · 69 years

  Sexual abuse by Catholic clerics in Illinois (Attorney General's report 2023)

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2002 · 52 years

  United States, John Jay Report of 2004 on sexual abuse by Catholic priests and deacons 1950 to 2002

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
• 1950-2022 · 72 years

  Sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Kansas (Kansas Bureau of Investigation report 2023)

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-1983 · 33 years

  Scotland, boarding schools of the Marist Brothers in Largs and Dumfries 1950 to 1983 (Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry 2021)

  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2025 · 75 years

  Violence and abuse in church institutions in Austria (Klasnic Commission)

  • Austria
  • Admission
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2022 · 72 years

  Sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church in Portugal (Independent Commission 2023)

  • Portugal
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-1989 · 39 years

  Sexual abuse in Catholic institutions in Australia (Royal Commission)

  • Australia
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2022 · 72 years

  Sexual abuse in the environment of the Catholic Church in Switzerland (pilot study, University of Zurich)

  • Switzerland
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2013 · 63 years

  Victoria, Australia: parliamentary inquiry "Betrayal of Trust" into the handling of child abuse (2013)

  • Australia
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1950-2020 · 70 years

  Sexual violence in the Catholic Church in France 1950 to 2020 (CIASE Report)

  • France
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1955-1993 · 38 years

  New Zealand, Marylands School and Hebron Trust, abuse by the Brothers of St John of God (Royal Commission 2023)

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1957-1990 · 33 years

  Canisius-Kolleg Berlin and other Jesuit schools, abuse and beatings by priests (Raue Report 2010)

  • Germany
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1958-2021 · 63 years

  Sexualised violence by clergy in the Diocese of Essen (IPP study 2023)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1960-2012 · 52 years

  England, Benedictine schools of Ampleforth and Downside, abuse and cover-up (IICSA 2018)

  • United Kingdom
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1960-1993 · 33 years

  Sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders in Ireland (Scoping Inquiry 2024)

  • Ireland
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1960-2023 · 63 years

  Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Spain (Ombudsman's report 2023)

  • Spain
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1962-2010 · 48 years

  Sexual abuse in six dioceses of Pennsylvania (grand jury report 2018)

  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1962-2002 · 40 years

  Abuse and cover-up in the Diocese of Ferns (Ferns Report)

  • Ireland
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1965-2019 · 54 years

  Sexual abuse by clerics in the Diocese of Aachen (WSW expert report 2020)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1965-1977 · 12 years

  Mount Cashel orphanage: abuse by Christian Brothers and an arrangement with the justice system (Hughes Commission)

  • Canada
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1967-2001 · 34 years

  Diocese of Trier, University of Trier study on sexual abuse during the terms of office of Bishops Stein and Spital (1967-2001)

  • Bolivia
  • Germany
  • Ukraine
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1970-2015 · 45 years

  England and Wales, state inquiry (IICSA) into abuse in the Catholic Church 1970 to 2015

  • United Kingdom
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1975-2018 · 43 years

  Handling of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Cologne (expert report 2021)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1975-1989 · 14 years

  Abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland (Winter Commission)

  • Canada
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1975-2004 · 29 years

  Abuse and cover-up in the Archdiocese of Dublin (Murphy Report)

  • Ireland
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1975-2002 · 27 years

  Peru, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, abuse by the founder and leadership, dissolved by the Vatican in 2025

  • Peru
  • Financial misconduct
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse
• 1976-1977 · 1 year

  Christian von Wernich, police chaplain during the Argentine military dictatorship

  • Argentina
  • Torture
  • Murder
  • Persecution
• 1978-2014 · 36 years

  Cover-up of abuse in the Archdiocese of Freiburg (report of the File Analysis Working Group)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1981-2010 · 29 years

  Diocese of Hildesheim, the case of the priest "Anton P.", institutional failure 1981 to 2010 (IPP expert report 2017)

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1990-2018 · 28 years

  Sexual abuse by clerics in Poland (church survey 2019)

  • Poland
  • Sexual abuse
• 1992-2019 · 27 years

  The case of Theodore McCarrick (Vatican report 2020)

  • Vatican City
  • United States
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 12 Apr 1994-16 Apr 1994 · 5 days

  Church of Nyange 1994: parish priest Athanase Seromba convicted of genocide

  • Rwanda
  • Murder
  • Persecution
• 27 Mar 1995-27 Feb 1998 · 2 years

  The Groër case: abuse allegations against the Archbishop of Vienna

  • Vatican City
  • Austria
  • Admission
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 1996-2009 · 13 years

  Cover-up in the Diocese of Cloyne and the attitude of the Vatican (Cloyne Report)

  • Ireland
  • Vatican City
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 2004-2014 · 10 years

  Construction of the bishop's residence in Limburg for around 31.5 million euros

  • Germany
  • Financial misconduct
  • Cover-up
• 2011-2019 · 8 years

  The Karadima case: conviction and dismissal from the clerical state

  • Chile
  • Vatican City
  • Sexual abuse
• 8 Apr 2018-31 May 2018 · 54 days

  Abuse and cover-up in the Church in Chile

  • Chile
  • Admission
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up
• 13 Jun 2020 · 1 day

  Diocese of Limburg, project "Listening to victims, preventing abuse" (2020), file analysis of 46 cases

  • Germany
  • Sexual abuse
  • Cover-up