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5-7), Alexander VI exercised the plenitudo potestatis given to him in the Donation of Constantine to distribute the newfound lands between Spain and Portugal, and he invoked his spiritual authority as the vicarius Christi to mandate the evangelization of their inhabitants.
The Pope as Vicarius Christi--sometimes speaking ordinarily, other times speaking extraordinarily, but acting always apostolically--proclaims this fullness of sacred truth with final authority.
 
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