An Early Modern Cosmopolitan Priest: Fr. Diego Collado (ca. 1587-1641), OP, and the failed attempt to promote Propaganda Fide in the Far East

Abstract

One generalization that describes the Society of Jesus is its globalizing nature, setting other religious orders aside. From a new approach of church history that emphasizes ecclesiastical contentiousness, I place the Dominican Fr. Diego Collado (ca. 1587–1641†) into a global context of circulation of papal agents, goods, and knowledge between early modern Europe, Japan, and the Philippines. Using archival materials, official reports, religious manifestos, and royal appointments and decrees, I focus upon this approach as an influential agent of Pontifical Congregation of Propaganda Fide [Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith] to demonstrate not only the inner division of the Order of Preachers, but also conflicting church-state relations in the Far East.

Keywords: Diego Collado, Dominicans, Philippines, Japan, Propaganda Fide.

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