Desobediencia y conflictos en el clero de las islas Filipinas (1595-1616)

This paper analyzes the reactions among the Philippine clergy after the erection of the Archbishopric of Manila in 1595 and therefore the imposition of the Tridentine decrees at the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Pacific, until the death of Archbishop Diego Vázquez de Mercado (1616). Unpublished correspondence between ecclesiastical figures from the Philippines serves as the main basis for this paper, which intends to show how the general disobedience of the clergy might have delayed the introduction to the Philippines of the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which had already governed Spanish pastoral ministry for over twenty years.