Taxa Innocentiana.

About Taxa Innocentiana

Taxa Innocentiana was a decree of Pope Innocent XI of 1 October 1678 that regulated the fees that episcopal chancery offices might demand or accept for various acts, instruments, and writings. According to the decree, bishops or their officials were proscribed from accepting anything, though voluntarily offered, for:Ordinations or anything connected therewith, e.g., dimissorial letters;