El arzobispado de Guatemala. Documentos sobre su creación (1742-1747)
Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas (Serie: Especiales del Centro de Estudios Mayas), 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 327p., facsimiles, tables, bibl., indices, wrps. New. Item #79036
ISBN: 9786073054287
On December 16, 1743 Benedict XIV issued the bull that dismembered the bishopric of Guatemala from the archdiocese of Mexico and constituted it an Archbishopric, giving it the miters of Chiapa, Nicaragua and Comayagua as suffragans.
The Spanish Crown, for its part, granted the royal approval in a document dated June 2, 1744: documents that were presented in February 1745 before the Royal Court. Thus, all the legal requirements for Guatemala to be officially recognized as a Metropolitan Archdiocese were fulfilled.
The local pontifical, royal and ecclesiastical documents that give an account of a long and complex process, which was sought to justify with extensive descriptions of the environment and its inhabitants, and which culminated in an event of transcendental regional importance, are little known, either because they are kept in part in Roman archives, either because several of them are written in Latin. Such is the case of the Guatemalensis Ecclesia Monumento, a 1744 text authored by Fray Raymundo Leal, written in New Spain Latin, which is presented here for the first time in a bilingual and annotated version, together with other manuscripts, which allow a detailed appreciation of a an event that for more than two centuries would make Guatemala the cornerstone of spiritual affairs in Central America,
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