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Pius V
pope of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572, saint
Paul IV
pope of catholic church 1555-1559
Benedict XII
pope of the Catholic Church 1334–1342
Robert Bellarmine
Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church
Johann Tetzel
German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences 1460-1519
Bernard Gui
Dominican friar, inquisitor and bishop of Lodeve (Limousin)
Heinrich Kramer
German churchman, inquisitor and withcraft theorist (c. 1430–c. 1505)
Peter of Verona
Italian Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint
Grand Inquisitor of Spain
president of the council of the Spanish Supreme Inquisition
Jacob Sprenger
priest from Germany
Antonio Marcello Barberini
Italian cardinal
Juan Antonio Llorente
writer
Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
Catholic cardinal
Nicholas Eymerich
Spanish theologian
Pierre de Lancre
French judge, witchcraft theorist and witch hunter (1553–1631)
Konrad von Marburg
Murdered German priest
Ludovico Madruzzo
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and statesman
Pedro de Arbués
Spanish canon regular and inquisitor
Juan Álvarez de Toledo
Catholic cardinal
Pedro Pacheco de Villena
Catholic cardinal
inquisitor
thumb|right|Tomás de Torquemada, 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and [[Grand Inquisitor.]] An inquisitor was an official (usually with judicial or investigative functions) in an inquisition – an organization or program intended to eliminate heresy and other things contrary to the doctrine or teachings of the Catholic faith. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" (from the Latin inquirere).
Vincenzo Maculani
Catholic cardinal
Latino Malabranca Orsini
Catholic cardinal
Bartolomeo Guidiccioni
Italian cardinal
Guillaume de Puylaurens
French writer and historian
William Damasus Lindanus
Dutch bishop (1525-1588)
Pedro de Córdoba
Spanish Dominican missionary
Bernat de Puigcercós
Sebastien Michaelis
French religious servant
Ruard Tapper
Dutch theologian
Diego Rodriguez Lucero
inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition
Jacob van Hoogstraten
Flemish Dominican theologian and controversialist
William of Paris
Archbihop of Sens
Juan Enguera
Spanish bishop and inquisitor
Francesco Silvestri
Italian theologian
Robert der Bulgare
13th-century Catholic inquisitor