History 2501E Lecture Notes - Religion In Africa, Secular Clergy, Missionary Church
31 Jan 2013
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The church and the state in the americas: The spanish took their responsibility to convert all the people they came across much more seriously. The clergy had to swear an oath that they would not violate the crown"s rights and the king also collected the tithes that paid the church clergy and funded different churches. The secular clergy was the bishop and other high up positions and the regular clergy were religious orders like. Dominicans and franciscans (much arguing between both clergies) Supposedly the regular clergy came and converted the natives then the secular clergy moved in because they were christians and the missionaries would move on to another area in theory. The first order to arrive in new spain were the franciscans and in peru the dominicans but we don"t have jesuits to start off because they didn"t exist until middle of the 16th century but they did arrive later.
