The
Roman Inquisition, formally the
Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, was a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman
Catholic Church, during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crimes relating to religious doctrine or alternate religious
doctrine or alternate religious beliefs. In the period after the
Medieval Inquisition, it was one of three different manifestations of the wider
Catholic Inquisition along with the
Spanish Inquisition and
Portuguese Inquisition.