Abstract

AYROLO, Valentina. The clerical world in the foreign vicarship of La Rioja, between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Andes [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1668-8090.

This paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of the clergy in the region of Tucumán from the study of the Church of La Rioja. There are two issues that interest us especially: the Rioja clergy´s profile and their type of social participation and interaction. Both issues reveal not only what the clergy was like, but also the society in which it interacted. We believe that the fact that most of the priests  who had a pastoral participation in the foreign Vicarship and at the same time  belonged to the restricted local elite, as well as the specific and particular characteristics of that society, limited the possibilities of expanding their number and quality . At the same time they delayed their "professionalism" and standardization of the internal organization of the Vicar.

Keywords : Clergy; La Rioja; Pastoral.

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