Páginas 341-353

In this article we analyse two important aspects of evangelism among indigenous populations in northern Chile from institutions called “parish of Indians” and “brotherhood”. In this way, based on an extensive review of documents deposited in domestic and foreign archives, we reconstruct Tarapaca’s ecclesiastical scene since the early Colony to Republic, and elucidate the most significant problems that affected Andean indigenous parishioners and that were directly related to the actions of church ministers present in Tarapacá, which would have had a great impact on local Andean religious practices.

This paper analyzes the early years of the priest Francisco Otal in the Archdiocese of Lima and La Plata. His ecclesiastical career, which led him to doctrinero in San Francisco de Chiuchiu to racionero of the Cathedral of La Plata, was preceded by a career as a musician and singer, helped by the interpretative strength og his record as tiple capon. It was this «officio of angels» which approached to Francisco de Otal to both the cathedral chapels of Lima and La Plata as to the prelates and members of church councils. As a consequence, his first appointment in Lima, in 1613, was very close and coincided with the early years of the process of extirpation of idolatry. Francisco Otal met its main protagonists, including the Archbishop Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero and other ecclesiastical authorities, deacons and field ground as Francisco de Avila that will surely...