Administración eclesiástica - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:52:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Administración eclesiástica - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Map of the ecclesiastical division of Spain at the end of the 18th century https://historylab.es/map-of-the-ecclesiastical-division-of-spain-at-the-end-of-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=map-of-the-ecclesiastical-division-of-spain-at-the-end-of-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:59 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mapa-de-la-division-eclesiastica-de-espana-a-finales-del-siglo-xviii/ Division into archdioceses, dioceses, archpriestships and parishes in Spain

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]]> During the Modern Age, Spain acquired numerous regional and provincial divisions. The different eras and reigns, especially in the 18th century, modified the jurisdictional divisions of the civil administration. The Enlightenment sought a more rationalised structure of Spain with criteria of convergence of interests. However, there was another division, parallel to the civil division, and equally important. This was the ecclesiastical division into archbishoprics. The Spanish ecclesiastical structure took shape during the Reconquest, with the archbishopric of Toledo being the greatest beneficiary on a territorial level due to its central location. Like the civil structure, it underwent changes, arriving at the end of the 18th century with the structures shown on the map. The archbishopric of Toledo was still the most important in the Peninsula and one of the largest, along with the archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. These large areas were subdivided into dioceses and bishoprics and these, in turn, into vicariates, archpriestships and parishes. The complicated interweaving of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions meant that they did not coincide with each other until well into the contemporary period. Even some provinces, such as Albacete, did not have civil-religious concordance until the creation of its diocese in 1949.

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]]> Evolution of the economic organisation of the Chapter of Barcelona in the 17th century https://historylab.es/evolution-of-the-economic-organisation-of-the-chapter-of-barcelona-in-the-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-the-economic-organisation-of-the-chapter-of-barcelona-in-the-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-la-organizacion-economica-del-cabildo-de-barcelona-en-el-siglo-xvii/ Resource showing the administrative division of the chapter of Barcelona Cathedral, as well as its functions and powers.

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]]> During the Modern Age, the Catholic Church was one of the main owners of movable and immovable property in Spain. This resource deals with the economy of ecclesiastical institutions through the Cathedral Chapter of Barcelona. Its economic administration was divided into nine bodies, each with its own legal personality and its own sources of funding. The bodies were: the Caritat, dedicated to the control and payment of the canons; the Pia Almoina, oriented towards charity through two subsections, the Administració General and Majordomia; the Beneficis Units, which helped the financial endowment of the canons; the Sacristy and the Obra de la Seo, whose functions were the sacramental administration (the former) and the maintenance of the building (the latter). The income derived from the performance of funerals corresponded to the Manna, and the distribution of bread rations among the staff was the task of the Passtrim. For its part, the chapter did not collect the rents directly; rather, it leased them as a way of obtaining economic benefit or in kind, and each administration was responsible for negotiating its leases. Throughout the 17th century, a process of administrative centralisation took place and progress was made in the professionalisation of management, with a more efficient system which, together with the system of leases, further reduced the organisational infrastructure. The centripetal ecclesiastical economy, with the conception of “dead hands” land ownership, clashed with the new forms of private property that appeared in the transformation from the Ancien Régime to the bourgeois state, and the lands were subject to subsequent confiscations.

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