Provinces Number of Held by Held by seculars regulars curacies Tondo 26 15 11 Bulacan 20 18 2 Pampanga 28 15 8 Bataan 10 7 3 Zambales 12 9 2 Nueva-Ecija 17 6 6 Laguna 35 27 7 Batangas 15 7 8 Cavite 12 4 11 Mindoro 10 6 4 Total 185 111 62 [113] Alfaro was provisor in 1578-79 (Huerta's _Estudo_, p. 441), at which time the governor was Francisco de Sande. [114] _Espolio_: the property which a prelate leaves at his death. [115] _Patrimonio_: property peculiarly made spiritual, according to the needs of the Church, so that anyone may be ordained on its foundation. [116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. Chaplaincies of this class are collative, thus being differentiated from those purely laical, in which the authority of the ordinary does not intervene. See _Dic. nacional lengua espanola_ (Madrid, 1878). [117] The summary of the above-mentioned chart is as follows: Provinces Number of Held by Held by seculars regulars curacies Cebu 45 32 12 Island of Negros 14 4 10 Leyte 14 7 7 Samar 15 14 0 Capiz 18 10 9 Iloilo 29 22 7 Antique 11 4 7 Misamis 7 7 0 Caraga 4 4 0 Nueva-Guipuzcoa 3 1 1 Calamianes 5 3 2 Zamboanga 1 1 0 Marianas Islands 4 3 1 Total 170 112 56 [118] The bishopric of Jaro was separated, by papal decree, in 1865, from that of Cebu, and contained the provinces of Iloilo, Concepcion, Capiz, and Antique (these four being included within the island of Panay); also Mindanao (excepting Misamis and Surigao, which are in the bishopric of Cebu), Calamianes, Negros, and Romblon. The Marianas Islands were assigned to the diocese of Cebu; also Bohol, Leyte, and Samar.