De Nava asks Chacon to send him information on king's plan to establish bishopric in New Mexico at El Paso. Specifies information on jurisdictions, distances, population, needs, etc. (Raul P Saba F) (1981)

Acknowledges receipt of bishop of Durango's order restricting faculties of parish priest of Santa Fe, Josef Vivian Ortega. expresses hope for more religious & civil tranquility in province given these restrictions on Ortega's insolence, etc. (Raul P Saba F) (1981)

(T. Sheridan) (1978)

Contains testimonies concerning disturbances in previous expediente; concerns loyalty to Fernando Septimo after Napoleon's invasion of peninsula; concerns costs of Spain's war with France declared July 8, 1793; also concerns celebration of Fernando Septimo's birthday and vandalism done to Santa Iglesia in Monterrey out of protest for his return to throne; if clergy in Monterrey had been united and had set good example, disturbances would not have happened; administrative corruption in backwater regions of state, lack of priests in countryside, peasants live like animals, bestiality prevalent; general complaints about conditions in countryside and how they were at root of disturbances, discontent and call for restoration of Fernando Septimo to throne. (K. Hubin, may, 1990)

Documents concerning political involvement in religious matters and vice versa; festivities for king's birthday and prince's betrothal, including list of important people involved with party; summary of audiences of bishop and ceremonies held at Santa Iglesia de Chihuahua and Durango cathedral. (A. Dean, February 1989)

Continued from previous sequence. Treatises concerning unhappy cooperation of religious and military leaders in arranging travel itinerary and lodging for Queen and Princess Maria Francisa in their ensuing tour of Mexico. Continued on next sequence. (A. Dean, February 1989)

Documents concerning bishop Castaniza's dealings with secular authorities. Ceremonies of church in Durango and cathedral in Monterrey. (A. Dean, February 1989)

Documents concerning affairs of cathedrals of Chihuahua and Durango; architectural details; religious ceremonies, including one to honor comandante general. Etiquette of civil-religious encounters; censure of Parinana, rector of Durango seminary, for failing to kiss governor's hand. Marriage of infant prince Carlos to infant Princess of Brazil, ensuing scandal. Affairs of bishop of Durango. (A. Dean, February 1989)

Llanos y Valdes, the bishop, is accused of carefully cutivating several crops while not allowing any of the benefits to go to the poor or to the public in general. Mention is made of the halted construction in Monterrey of cathedral, Hospital, convent, and seminary. Several informes addressed to the virrey Revilla Gigedo asked him to find speedy solutions to the various problems caused by the bishop; one even asked for the aid of the church in Madrid. As one author stated, the overall problem is the mismanagement by Llanos y Valdes of the Diezmos for the diocesis. On January 24, 1794, Llanos de Valdes wrote to Revilla Gigedo on his own behalf; he denied mismanaging the Diezmos and said that the money made from the crops was enough to cover only a portion of the debts of the Diezmos. Additionally, Llanos y Valdes' excommunication of Rubalcava came up again (he received such treatment for being absent from the Pesqueria el Grande Valley without the permission of the bishop). Ff. 427 is chart of monetary transactions for ecclesiastical items. Ff. 421 and 431-435 and 439 are also charts; they are copies of pages from rublacava's books as contador de Diezmos for Monterrey. Ff.411 is followed by informes, also copies of earlier documents, explaining the chart's contents. (S. Langmack may 1990)

Informes concerning Diezmos of the diocesis of Monterrey. An informe lists the annual pay of many of the church's employees many of the authors wrote that Rubalcava lent money from the Diezmos to people with apparent little consideration for their ability to repay or little evidence of their good faith. Discussion only. (S. Langmack may 1990)