{{Short description|1522 papal bull by Adrian VI}} '''{{lang|la|Exponi nobis nuper fecisti}}''', known in New Spain as '''{{lang|la|Omnimoda}}''', was a papal bull commissioned by Charles V and promulgated by Adrian VI on 10 May 1522.<ref name="greenleaf">{{cite journal |last1=Greenleaf |first1=Richard E. |title=The Inquisition and the Indians of New Spain: A Study in Jurisdictional Confusion |journal=The Americas |date=October 1965 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=138–166 |doi=10.2307/979238 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/abs/inquisition-and-the-indians-of-new-spain-a-study-in-jurisdictional-confusion/C717AB3A12CD0E9A9853F23D0A8EB0A5 |access-date=27 April 2024 |language=en |issn=0003-1615|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="giannini">{{cite book |last1=Jeanne |first1=Boris |editor1-last=Giannini |editor1-first=Massimo Carlo |title=Papacy, religious orders, and international politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |date=2013 |pages=1–250 |url=https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/2645724 |access-date=27 April 2024 |language=en |chapter=The Franciscans of Mexico : Tracing Tensions between Rome and Madrid in the provincia del Santo Evangelio (1454-1622)}}</ref> The bull allowed members of mendicant orders in the New World to exercise "almost all episcopal authority" when no diocesan bishop was within two days' travel.<ref name="greenleaf" /> These powers were later confirmed at the Council of Trent.<ref name="spicer">{{cite book |last1=Spicer |first1=Andrew |title=Parish Churches in the Early Modern World |date=5 December 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-91276-1 |page=1486 |language=en}}</ref>

Under the authority of {{lang|la|Omnimoda}}, missionary priests such as Martín de Valencia and Diego de Landa acted as agents of the Inquisition in the Americas.<ref name="greenleaf" /> The bull also gave missionaries the authority to dispense local Catholics from impediments to marriage.<ref name="gu">{{cite book |last1=Gu |first1=Weiying |title=Missionary Approaches and Linguistics in Mainland China and Taiwan |date=2001 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-161-5 |page=19 |language=en}}</ref>

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