Un antijesuita en la mitra de Manila: Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina

Basilio Sancho experienced many difficulties during his reign in the diocese of Manila (1767-1787). In the first years, between 1767 and 1770, the Metropolitan was opposed the Provincial of the different religions because of the pastoral visit, he tried hard to accelerate the expulsion of the islander Jesuits, toward which he felt great distaste, and was openly opposed to the governor Raon and to the commissioner Basaraz, who were accused of negligence in their political labor. In the year 1770, the expulsion of the Company of Jesus in January, the arrival in Manila in July of the new governor Simon de Anda -an inflexible defensor of the royal prerogatives like Basilio-, and the fall from grace of Raon and Basaraz in September, offered a short but beneficial pause to the energetic and firm Prelate.