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Governor Benavides avoided replacing SA's missing auxilliary bishop
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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During his long governorship, from 1718 to 1734, Benavides did not press the Crown to replace the auxiliary bishop. This may have been partly because he was embroiled in quarrels with the parish priest, the chaplain of the fort, and another ecclesiastic (Spanish Crown, 1725a), and partly because a bishop was likely to investigate what had happened to the building funds for the church and convent, which Benavides had appropriated to build a stone wall on the city's defense perimeter. (Bushnell SS)
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