Note XXX-63 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.

Of whom 39 received their offices during the colonial period, the last one being Friar Higinio Duran, of the order of Mercy and a native of Lima. He took possession in 1818, and died in Chepo on the 22d of Oct., 1823. This bishop was one of the signers of the declaration of independ. of the Isthmus in 1821. His successors were Manuel Vasquez, Juan J. Cabarcas Gonzalez, Juan F. del R. Manfiedo y Ballestas, Friar Eduardo Vasquez, who died in Rome, Jan. 2, 1870, Ignacio Antonio Parra, who took possession June 3, 1871. Hernaez, Extracto del Libro de la Comp. de Jesus, in Maldonado, Asuntos Polít de Pan., MS., 34-5; Pan., Col. Docs., MS., nos. 125-6; Pan. Docs.; Montúfar, Reseña Hist., iv. 344; Nic., Boletin Ofic., Nov. 1, 1862; Pan., Boletin Ofic., March 4, 1869; Id., Gaceta, June 6, 1871. Parra held the office only a few years, and was succeeded by Telésforo Paúl, who occupied it till Dec. 1884, when he repaired to Bogotá, his native city, to fill that archepiscopal see. The assembly of the state on the 22d of Dec., 1884, adopted a resolution recognizing his efforts to promote harmony, and appointed a committee to escort him as far as Barranquilla. La Estrella de Pan., Jan. 1, 1885; El Cronista (Pan.), Jan. 3, 1885.