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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55: 1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55: 1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

who are not curas. In this instance I order that they have recourse to
the said my viceroy, who shall appoint them and who can remove them,
to represent to him the causes, so that it may be done as has been
and is done in Pirú. And inasmuch as the said religious, in regard
to the jurisdiction, are not endeavoring to acquire any right for
the perpetuity of the said missions; and since by the aforesaid the
ordinary jurisdiction is not annulled in cases that conform to law
and to the holy council of Trent: it pertains to the superiors to
try the causes of the religious. That must and shall be understood,
without any prejudice to the ordinary jurisdiction and the right of
my patronage. I order all the above to be thus observed and executed
inviolably by my viceroy, archbishop, bishops of Nueva España and
all other persons whom its fulfilment concerns, notwithstanding any
other orders whatever that may exist to the contrary. Such I revoke
and declare null and void. Given in Madrid, June twenty-two, one
thousand six hundred and twenty-four.


_I The King_

_Juan Ruiz de Contreras_"


And in behalf of the archbishop of the metropolitan church of the
city of Manila in the Philipinas Islands, I have been requested to
be pleased to declare whether the decree of November fourteen of the
former year six hundred and three is to be observed in those islands,
in regard to the manner in which the said religious missionaries
are to be visited; or whether the visit is to be exercised with the
limitation and in the form contained in the new decree which was given
to Nueva España. The matter having been examined in my royal Council
of the Indias, I have considered it fitting to give the present. By
it I order that everything contained in the decree herein inserted
be observed and obeyed by my governor, archbishop, and bishops of
those islands, and by all other persons whom it concerns, exactly
as is contained in it, for such is my will. Given in Madrid, August
fourteen, one thousand six hundred and twenty-four. [21]


_I The King_

By order of the king our sovereign:

_Juan Ruiz de Contreras_





CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES


_Case that happened in Manila in the year 1623, in regard to a fugitive
who was taken from the church_

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