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Bishops of the Habit in Castile, 1621–1665: A Prosopographical Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2005
Abstract
The seventeenth-century Spanish Church stood out among other Catholic countries of western Europe on account of the high percentage of members of the religious orders – especially Dominicans – recruited as bishops. While their authority as preachers and theologians, schooled in the post-Tridentine tradition, made them eminently suitable candidates for office, they had none of the secular experience normally required of an episcopate that worked in close alliance with the state. The political and fiscal pressures placed on this alliance under Philip IV prompted an unprecedented crisis of recruitment to the Spanish church hierarchy, of which the religious orders became the direct beneficiaries.
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AHN, consejos=Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid, consejos suprimidos; ASV, PC=Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Rome, processus consistoriales; DHEE=Q. Alden, T Marin and J. Vives (eds), Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España, Madrid 1972–5
This article is based upon a paper given at a conference on ‘The religious orders at the court of Philip IV’, held at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. Research in the Vatican Archives was supported by a British Academy Small Research Grant. I wish to thank Professor Terence O'Reilly and Dr Anthony Wright for their comments.