MANUEL CANUTO RESTREPO Y VILLEGAS, 1825-1891 UN OBISPO EN GUERRAS CIVILES COLOMBIANAS, ENTRE LA COMUNA DE PARÍS Y LA COMUNA DE PASTO

Abstract

This article is about a colombian from the conservative region of Antioquia, his name is Manuel Canuto Restrepo and Villegas, he formed himself as a priest and became a bishop from the theological city of Pasto in 1872. He decidedly committed himself with the catholic regime -which at the time was privileged by the state-, supported by the Syllabus errorum. He fought for it in times of war and peace, his battles where assiduously against his opponents, liberals, protestants, masons and communists which, in his concept where forming a complot against the catholic religion, to substitute the church for a free thinking with domain of reason and atheism. To neutralize these he founded a community in Pasto that opposed to the one in Paris and developed multiple pastoral activities do to the fact that he was an expert in fighting a war with the pen and anonymity. Once his renounce was accepted by a papal requirement after the political and religious war of 1876-1877, he lost his position in 1880 and he had to wait several years -before his death in 1891-, until the fall of the radical liberalism (1863-1886) in order to be able to taste the delights of the conservative regeneration, pro-hispanic and catholic