Jesuit Constitutions (system of rules)

Timeline

1. 1540–1541Rome · LazioThe 1540 papal bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae approved the founding of the Society of Jesus; around 1541 Ignatius completed the final text of the Constitutions, establishing core organizational principles such as the superior general system, four vows, and obedience to mission.
2. 1541–1550Rome · LazioIn the 1540s the Constitutions were revised and refined by Ignatius and his early companions, forming a textual system of the Constitutions, the Additions, and the Experiments, while the Roman headquarters established the college system, provincial divisions, and mission dispatch procedures.