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What was Pope Gregory XIII's main religious policy?

  • Counter-Reformation

  • Protestant Reformation

  • Eastern Orthodoxy

  • Islamic Relations

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Counter-Reformation was Pope Gregory XIII's main religious policy. It aimed to strengthen the Catholic Church and combat the spread of Protestantism. The policy included measures such as the establishment of seminaries to train priests, the creation of the Index of Forbidden Books to control the spread of heretical ideas, and the dispatch of missionaries to areas where Protestantism had taken hold.
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