Sicut dudum

Sicut dudum
Latin for 'Just as Long Ago'
Encyclical of Pope Eugene IV
Signature date 13 January 1435
SubjectForbade enslavement of local natives of the Canary Islands who had converted to Christianity
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Sicut dudum (from Latin: "Just as Long Ago") was a papal bull promulgated by Pope Eugene IV in Florence on January 13, 1435, which forbade the enslavement of the Indigenous Guanches people of the Canary Islands who had converted, or were converting to, Christianity and ordered, under pain of excommunication, that all such slaves be set free within 15 days.

The bull is also known as Creator Omnium with the date of 17 December 1434. Sicut dudum is the incipit of the third paragraph of Creator Omnium, echoing the abbreviated version reported by Cardinal Cesare Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici.

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