Pavel Valentinovich Krylov PhD in History, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru
Krylov P. V. Cardinal Palazzo Altieri’s project on legalization of Catholicism in Sweden: document from the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2024, vol. 13, pp. 400–417.
doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2024-13-400-417
Language: Russian
The article presents for publication a document from the correspond ence of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, which is a project of Paluzzo Alt ieri, Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, aimed at achieving the right of Catholics to freedom of confession in Sweden in the 1670s, when it was a country of evangelical Lutheran orthodoxy. The text appeared as a response to a report by Niccolo Bargellini, the former papal nuncio to France, who credited himself with achieving freedom for the Catholic religion in Denmark. As arguments for achieving the goal, Nuncio Marescotti was recommended to use motives: 1. the Franco-Habsburg contradictions, 2. the benefits of religious freedom for the development of navigation and trade, 3. the favor of some German princes to Catholicism. At the same time, the instructions contain a lot of unreliable information, reflecting not so much the real state of affairs in the inter national church policy of the Baroque era, as the unsupported intentions of the Holy See.
Key words: canon law, holy see, proselytism, Sweden, international relations, Roman Catholic Church
URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov-2024-en/
