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More than a century after its foundation (1540), the cathedral chapter of valladolid consolidated as a body. He had strengthened the means that made its existence possible, as well as those which permitted the developpment of an historical project : the cathedral church. This last revealed herself as a socio-cultural entity much broader and complex than its religious base or its material aspect. She demanded of the chapter during a second century (1660-1775), not only to take local rooting and to start up a process of professionalism, but also the setting up of a social system articulated succesfully around the main church. As permanent administrator of the latter, the chapter also constituted the most important corporation of valladolid. When it reached a moment of grandeur, there came the shock of the bourbon royal policies whose fiscal tendency emphasized after 1775 a colonialist status for new spain. In only thirty years time, a two hundred year process was undermined. The revolution that broke up in the bishopric of michoacan only two yea rs after the monarchical crisis of 1808 considerably altered the history of the cathedral chapter in the context of new spain.