El proyecto de creación del obispado de Montevideo en 1809: un aspecto ignorado de la demanda de autonomía local

As in the case with the initiative of establishing a trade Consulate in the city or the increase the limits of its jurisdiction, the project of erecting a bishopric in Montevideo became the metropolis in the hard times of the war of independence. They co-operated to the presentation of this project –caught in the throes of the Spanish regime– the strong discrepancies of the authorities of Montevideo with the Bishop of Buenos Aires, Ilmo. Lué y Riega, and the need to correct the lack of spiritual care in the villages of the campaign. As singular expression of the unsatisfied thirst for political autonomy of Montevideo, this project provides data to the analysis of the local religiosity at the same time ventured into the tricky question of the geographical limits of the modern Nations of the Río de la Plata