Editing Regnans in Excelsis (section)

{{Short description|1570 papal bull by Pius V excommunicating Queen Elizabeth I of England}}
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{{Infobox papal document|title=Regnans in Excelsis|type=bull|pope=Pius V|language of title=latin|translation of title=Reigning on High|signature date=25 February 1570|Papal coats of arms=C o a Pius V.svg|subject=Excommunication of [[Queen Elizabeth I]]|web_en=https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius05/p5regnans.htm|before=Consueverunt Romani Pontifices|after=Quo primum}}
[[File:Papa Pio V.PNG|thumb|[[Pope Pius V]]]]
[[File:Elizabeth I c 1570.jpg|thumb|[[Queen Elizabeth I]], {{circa|1570}}]]
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'''''Regnans in Excelsis''''' ("Reigning on High") is a [[papal bull]] that [[Pope Pius V]] issued on 25 February 1570. It [[excommunicated]] Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], referring to her as "the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime," declared her a heretic, and released her subjects from allegiance to her, even those who had "sworn oaths to her," and excommunicated any who obeyed her orders: "We charge and command all and singular the nobles, subjects, peoples and others afore said that they do not dare obey her orders, mandates and laws. Those who shall act to the contrary we include in the like sentence of excommunication."<ref name = "Regnans in Excelsis - Latin">{{cite web | url = https://www.papalencyclicals.net/paul06/p5regnanslatin.htm | author = Pope Pius V | author-link = Pope Pius V | title = Regnans in Excelsis | date = 25 February 1570 | website = Papal Encyclicals Online | language = Latin | access-date = 5 March 2020}}</ref><ref name = "Regnans in Excelsis - English">{{cite web | url = https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius05/p5regnans.htm | author = Pope Pius V | author-link = Pope Pius V | title = Regnans in Excelsis | date = 25 February 1570 | website = Papal Encyclicals Online | language = English | access-date = 5 March 2020}}</ref>

Among the queen's offences, "She has removed the royal Council, composed of the nobility of England, and has filled it with obscure men, being heretics; oppressed the followers of the Catholic faith; instituted false preachers and ministers of impiety; abolished the sacrifice of the mass, prayers, fasts, choice of meats, celibacy, and Catholic ceremonies; and has ordered that books of manifestly heretical content be propounded to the whole realm and that impious rites and institutions after the rule of [[John Calvin|Calvin]], entertained and observed by herself, be also observed by her subjects."<ref name = "Regnans in Excelsis - English" />

The bull, written in [[Latin]],<ref name = "Regnans in Excelsis - Latin" /> is named from its ''[[incipit]]'', the first three words of its text.