During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Society of Jesus was expelled from one Catholic monarchy after another before Pope Clement XIV dissolved the order outright. Portugal's chief minister the Marquis of Pombal moved first, expelling the Jesuits from Portugal and its colonies beginning in 1759 after accusing them of conspiracy against the crown. France followed in 1764, and Spain's King Charles III ordered the Jesuits expelled from Spain and the entire Spanish Empire in 1767, deporting thousands of missionaries from the Americas and the Philippines in a single coordinated action. These national expulsions, driven by royal ministers suspicious of Jesuit wealth, independence and loyalty to Rome rather than the crown, culminated in Pope Clement XIV's brief Dominus ac Redemptor of 1773, which suppressed the Society of Jesus worldwide until its restoration in 1814.
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The suppression of the Society of Jesus was the removal of all members of the Jesuits from most of Western Europe and their respective colonies beginning in 1759 along with the abolition of the order by the Holy See in 1773; the papacy acceded to anti-Jesuit demands without much resistance.
- Has Member: The Pombaline Expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal, Article states Pombal deported about one thousand Portuguese Jesuit fathers to the Papal States in 1759
- Has Member: The Expulsion Of The Jesuits From The Spanish Empire (1767), Article states Charles III convened a royal commission that drew up the plan to expel the Jesuits from Spain in 1767
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