Abstract
Between the 1820s and 1830s, the Seminário Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte, located in the home of the Bishop in Minas Gerais, was seized as the focus of political, religious and educational disputes. Two main subjects with great social projection in the province of Minas Gerais performed as leading figures in such conflicts: the Bishop Dom Frei José da Santíssima Trindade and the priest, teacher and politician Antonio José Ribeiro Bhering. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the disputes around Mariana Seminar, most importantly the ones concerning the settling of its regency Statutes, had been bound to the re-adequacy regarding political and religious authorities’ fields of practice in the years following the independence of Brazil.
Keywords:
Political and religious authorities; Minas Gerais; Mariana Seminar; Antonio José Ribeiro Bhering; Dom Frei José da Santíssima Trindade