Spanish priests didn't find cities. They established missions around which cities grew.
Usually by city-cults and their priests.
The Spanish wanted to convert the heathen Americans to the one true faith, Christianity. In order to convert these people, priests would be necessary.
killing native leaders such as warriors and priests.
Here in the new world, I believe the country that sent the most priest over here to teach the native Americans the faith was Spain. There are currently, five Georgia martyrs being considered for canonization (declared Saints) by Rome, all five of them were Spanish friars. Spanish priests taught the faith to all the countries in South America save Brazil, those priests were from Portugal. Canada's priests were from France.
This was because the priests ran the irrigation systems.
Settlers in the Spanish borderlands were mostly soldiers and Catholic priests. The Spanish borderlands disappeared in 1821, when Mexico became independent.
The Spanish Inquisition is an organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain that were practicing their old religion
When the Spanish explorers arrived in Mexico they had priests with them. The priests convert the people they found.
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Yes.
they had settled there for religious purposes
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Estimates suggest that between 6,832 and 7,937 priests and members of the Catholic hierarchy were killed during the Spanish Civil War.
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Usually by city-cults and their priests.
350 and some priests