Editing Pope Clement X (section)

===Foreign affairs===
Clement X, seeing the results of the apostolic labours of the early French missionaries in [[Canada (New France)|Canada]], the number of the faithful, and the wide field of labour, resolved to give the Church an independent organisation, and erected a [[episcopal see|''see'']] at [[Quebec]], the bishop to depend directly on the [[Holy See]]; this provision would later secure its permanence after Quebec passed into the hands of [[British Empire|Great Britain]]. The first bishop was [[Francois de Montmorency-Laval]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.archivesvirtuelles.com/letter.php?letterID=33| title = "Bull of Pope Clement X erecting into a diocese the Vicariate Apostolic of New France", Virtual Cathedral| date = 15 December 2008}}</ref>

In 1673, there arrived at Rome ambassadors from the Tsar of [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]], [[Alexis of Russia|Alexei]]. He solicited from the Pope the title of [[Tsar]], which, however, had already been adopted by his predecessors. At the same time it could not be forgotten that he gave strong financial aid to King [[John III Sobieski]] of [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]] in their fight against the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] invaders. But [[Paul Menesius]], a Scotsman, who was the ambassador, could not obtain the grant or sanction of that title, though he was received with great magnificence and had many precious gifts to carry back to his master. The Russian Tsar did not profess the Catholic faith in such a manner as to give any assurance of his intentions, and the King of Poland had looked upon the embassy with displeasure.

Clement X suspended the [[Portuguese Inquisition]] in 3 October 1674, challenging the techniques employed against  the New Christians. The suspension lasted till 1681. <ref name=":0" />