Renaissance · North America · Religion
1546
Bartolome de las Casas Becomes Bishop
1546
The Dominican reformer Bartolome de las Casas was installed as bishop of Chiapas, where he immediately refused absolution to encomenderos who would not free their indigenous laborers. Colonists rioted. Las Casas resigned within two years and returned to Spain to continue his campaign at court, more embittered and more eloquent than ever.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.