The appointment of this chapter, in time known as the Old Chapter, was a controversial matter, dividing the secular priests from the regular clergy.
32.
The secular clergy and the remaining regular clergy, fearing possible royal action against them, began to speak against the regime in sermons and other public acts.
33.
Most of the regular clergy were drawn from the nobility, the same social class that served as the recruiting ground for the upper levels of the secular clergy.
34.
The regular clergy are not obliged to pay the cathedraticum for their monasteries and conventual churches, as is expressly stated in the " Corpus Juris " ( cap.
35.
In February 1836, the Mendizabal Confiscation Ecclesiastical Act declared the sale of all property belonging to the regular clergy, and the proceeds were intended to amortize the debt.
36.
Santa Marta earthquake, but it had to be abandoned in 1829 when Francisco Moraz�n expelled the Mercedarians along with all the other regular clergy from Central America . ]]
37.
Bishops were not appointed by the archbishop, but, like him, were elected through a system granting representation to laymen, other bishops, abbots, and regular clergy.
38.
Another tactic by the Spanish was to move control of parish churches from the Franciscan monks to regular clergy under the control of the bishop of Puebla in the mid 17th century.
39.
The crown also tried to place the more secular clergy in the church hierarchy, reversing a trend since the beginning of the colonial period of having the regular clergy fill these posts.
40.
The clergy was divided into two types : the secular clergy, who lived out in the world, and the regular clergy, who lived under a religious rule and were usually monks.
