# Leo X issues Exsurge Domine against Luther

Date: 1520

## The fact

On 15 June 1520 Leo X issued Exsurge Domine, listing errors and threatening [Luther](/people/martin-luther) with excommunication. The bull is a papal act; Luther's prior books are the cited cause.

## Context

Eck's work at Leipzig 1519 fed the file. Sixty days to submit. Luther did not.

## Evidence and sources

Bull text and Luther's response. Establishes the legal instrument and the target. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

Justice path: an extra-imperial spiritual court process that then collides with a diet.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 June 1520 bull. Not established: that Luther drafted it. Confidence high.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then [burns](/people/sec-william-burns); both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1520-06-15. Martin Luther's documented role is: He is the condemned author whose writings the bull lists; Leo X issued it. A papal condemnation process without an open academic resolution is the legal machine he then burns; both sides fracture procedure. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

## People

- Martin Luther: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html
- https://www.luther.de/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-exsurge-domine-target-1520