Quo Primum

Quo Primum is the first two words of a promulgated bubble on July 14th, 1570 by the pope Pie V. This text has as an aim the publication of a Missel of reference in the Latin Church. The pope, while publishing the first typical edition of the Roman Missal, returns this one validates in all the Christian occident.

Origins of the Roman mass

The council of Thirty and the liturgy

The bubble

By the bubble Quo Primum , the pope makes compulsory the use of this text in all the Latin Church, by making exception only for the places or another rite was celebrated during more than two hundred years. Thus, inter alia, the Rite ambrosien and the Rite Mozarab and the rites of several religious institutes could continue their existence legally.

“Saint Pie V had designed the edition of the Roman Missal like a catholic instrument of unit. In conformity with the regulations of the Council of Thirty, the Roman Missal of saint Pie V was to prevent whom could be introduced into the divine worship none the subtle errors of which the faith was threatened by the Protestant Reform”.

The text of the bubble

'' Quo primum in time '' on the site '' Salve Regina ''

The application of the bubble

The abrogation of Quo Primum ?

April 3rd, 1969, the pope Paul VI publishes the apostolic constitution Missale romanum to promulgate the “new Roman Missel”. In practice, this promulgation involved to it quasi disappearance of the Rite tridentin although number of liturgists and canonists consider that this abrogation in fact did not take place to be.

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