Archbishops and Cathedral Chapters of the Colonial Philippines

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is Professor of Latin American History and the Philippines at the Department of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. His main lines of research deal with historical anthropology, chronicles of the Indies, and early modern Spanish colonialism, especially focused on ecclesiastical history of the Marianas and the Philippines. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Grande Dourados (UFGD, Brazil), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico) and the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA, Peru). From 2020 to 2024, he was a researcher at Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- PART 1.- Chapter 2: The Rise of the Hijos de la Tierra.- Chapter 3: The Archbishop’s Nemesis.- PART 2.- Chapter 4: Challenging the Royal Patronage.- Chapter 5: Fighting to the Death.- Chapter 6: A Trojan Horse.