The Suppression of the Jesuits in the Portuguese Empire, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by 1767 is a result of a series of political moves rather than a theological controversy.

Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Society of Jesusby the brief Dominus ac Redemptor (21 July 1773).

The order is ignored, however, in non-Catholic nations, particularly in Prussia and Russia, where papal authority is not recognized,

The scholarly Jesuit Society of Bollandists moves from Antwerp to Brussels, where they continue their work in the monastery of the Coudenberg; in 1788, the Bollandist Society is suppressed by the Austrian government of the Low Countries.