Creator Omnium

Creator Omnium was a papal bull issued by Pope Eugene IV on 17 December 1434 that condemned the enslavement of the inhabitants of the Canary Islands and ordered, under pain of excommunication, that all such slaves be set free within 15 days of its publication.

The bull is also known as Sicut Dudum with the date of 13 January 1435, a title that is the incipit of the third paragraph of Creator Omnium,[1] echoing the abbreviated version reported by Cardinal Cesare Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici.

[5] A complaint was lodged by Fernando Calvetos, the Castilian bishop of San Marcial del Rubicón in Lanzarote, supported by the archbishop of Seville.

Pope Eugene IV issued Regimini gregis on 29 September 1434,[6] and Creator Omnium, on 17 December 1434, forbidding any further raids on the Canaries and ordered the immediate manumission of all Christian converts enslaved during the attack.

[10] Michael Stogre holds that Nicholas intended the ban to protect non-Christians as well, in keeping with the view of Innocent IV that the flock of Christ included "pagan sheep" that he ultimately hoped to Christianize.