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Spanish priests in Mexico threatened to abandon their parishes
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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The Council of Trent (1545-1563) revoked these privileges, giving bishops authority over members of mendicant orders who acted as parish priests, plus the right to collect Indian tithes. When the bishops of Mexico tried to enforce these decrees, however, the orders threatened to abandon their parishes. Philip II had to ask the pope to suspend the Tridentine reforms temporarily, permitting the regular clergy to function in the Indian parishes under their own superiors. The result was the bull Exponi nobis, 1567, a victory for the king's missionaries over the king's bishops. The matter was not settled. Step by step, following a program outlined in a royally convoked council, the Junta of 1568, the Crown took control of the Indian Church within the viceroyalties. (Bushnell SS)
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