(11) One Academic Year â shall be construed to mean a program of at least 45 quarter-hour units, 30 semester-hour units, or 32 trimester-hour units or the equivalent thereof. One hour of didactic or 2 hours of clinical instruction shall equal one unit.
This article is about the Inquisition within the Catholic Church. For other uses, see Inquisition (disambiguation). The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. It started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, in particular the Cathars and the Waldensians.
Roughly 700 years. The official start is usually given as 1231 A.D., when the pope appoints the first inquisitors of heretical depravity.. The Spanish Inquisition, which begins under Ferdinand and Isabella, doesn't end until the 19th century -- the last execution was in 1826. At the outset, the main focus was on Jews and judaizers -- Christian converts of Jewish ancestry who were accused of secretly adhering to Judaism.