This article aims to explain the process which led to the founding of the Inquisition tribunal in Goa, the first Holy Office tribunal to be created outside Europe. Following a review of previous historiographical studies which have analyzed this question, it examines the mechanisms for Christianization/confessionalization deployed by the Iberian monarchs in Asia and America from a global and comparative perspective, based on a rereading and reinterpretation of Inquisition documents and correspondence from various agents who were involved in the process. It presents an explanation that emphasizes the existence of a cluster of causalities which created a dense network of convergent forces that favored the founding of an Inquisition tribunal in Asia in 1560.

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果阿的宗教裁判所：为什么以及为了什么目的？

本文旨在解释导致在果阿成立宗教裁判所的过程，这是在欧洲以外创建的第一个圣职法庭。在回顾之前分析过这个问题的史学研究之后，它基于对宗教裁判所文件和来自不同国家的信件的重读和重新解释，从全球和比较的角度审视了伊比利亚君主在亚洲和美洲部署的基督教化/忏悔化机制。参与该过程的代理人。它提出了一种解释，强调存在一系列因果关系，这些因果关系创造了一个密集的汇聚力量网络，有利于 1560 年在亚洲建立宗教裁判所。