Note 83 — Chapter X · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE CHURCH: THE ROYAL PATRONAGE

It may be said, however, that with the creation of the superintendency the audiencia was shorn of many of the miscellaneous functions with which it had been formerly endowed. The funds of the temporalities, however, did not come under this category. They were greatly augmented in 1767 when the Jesuits were suppressed, and as was usual with such miscellaneous and unclassified duties, as well as on account of the audiencia’s relation to the royal patronage, the administration of these funds came under the charge of an oidor whose official title was “administrator of the funds of the temporalities.”83