Inquisitor
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:''This article is about the religious office in historic Christianity. For other uses, see [[Inquisitor (disambiguation)]].''
An '''inquisitor''' was an official in an [[Inquisition]], an organisation or program intended to eliminate [[heresy]] and other things frowned on by the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" ([[Latin]] ''inquirere'' < ''quaerere'', "to seek").
The chief inquisitor of an Inquisition was often called the [[Grand Inquisitor]].
==Prominent inquisitors==
Some of the more well-known inquisitors throughout history include:
*[[Arnaut Catalan]]
*[[Bernard Gui]]
*[[Diego Deza]]
*[[Fabio Chigi]] (later [[Pope Alexander VII]])
*[[Heinrich Institoris]], author of ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]''
*[[Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros]]
*[[Francisco Peña]]
*[[James Sprenger]], possible co-author of ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]''
*[[Konrad von Marburg]]
*[[Pedro de Arbués]]
*[[Tomás de Torquemada]]
*[[Nicolau Aymerich]] author of ''[[Directorium Inquisitorum]]''
*[[Sebastien Michaelis]]
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