The church in Spain had been purged of many of its administrative excesses in the 15th century by Cardinal Ximenes, and the Inquisition served to expurgate many of the more radical reformers who sought to change church theology as the Protestant reformers wanted.
A igrexa en España fora purgada de moitos dos seus excesos administrativos no século XV polo Cardeal Cisneros, e a Inquisición serviu para expurgar a moitos dos reformadores máis radicais que intentaban cambiar a teoloxía da igrexa a como os reformadores protestantes querían.