Father is Padre. Priest is presbítero or sacerdote.
Spanish priests didn't find cities. They established missions around which cities grew.
Settlers in the Spanish borderlands were mostly soldiers and Catholic priests. The Spanish borderlands disappeared in 1821, when Mexico became independent.
When the Spanish explorers arrived in Mexico they had priests with them. The priests convert the people they found.
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they had settled there for religious purposes
prayer for priests = Oratio pro sacerdotes
Estimates suggest that between 6,832 and 7,937 priests and members of the Catholic hierarchy were killed during the Spanish Civil War.
The priests of the Spanish Inquistion went to great lengths to devise totures that did not involve spilling blood, so they could say: "We do not shed blood".
350 and some priests
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The Spanish wanted to convert the heathen Americans to the one true faith, Christianity. In order to convert these people, priests would be necessary.
Because a large percent of Spain's population was Catholic.