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How did the inquisition help the catholic church to gain, maintain, and consolidate power?
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How did the inquisition help the catholic church to gain, maintain, and consolidate power?

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Inquisition techniques which involved torture and persecution was very successful in consolidating the powers of bishops and the church as it kept heretics away from several places in Europe such as Italy and Spain where it strongly checked the spread of Protestantism.
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