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694 time the see contained forty-five parishes in charge of secular clergy, a dozen of them among the Spanish settlers and miners.

On the death of Bishop Zárate of Oajaca, another prominent Dominican, Bernardo Acuña de Alburquerque, was chosen his successor, and since he

had already occupied this field as a friar, he gladly resumed his task, and labored with tireless ardor and