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Pastor bonus

Apostolic constitution of John Paul II

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Pastor bonus is an apostolic constitution promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988. It instituted a number of reforms in the process of running the central government of the Catholic Church.

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“Pastor bonus” enters the record as apostolic constitution of John Paul II. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pastor, bonus and Apostolic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pastor, bonus and Apostolic.
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“Pastor bonus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pastor, bonus and Apostolic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pastor bonus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.