The ecclesiastical constitution was an order upon which the Catholic Church was
organized. Within its complex body it was constituted by multiple organisms,
represented by structured and hierarchical groups of agents, distributed in urban and
rural areas in the "Alagoas" space. Whose territory, as of 1712, was established as a
legal-administrative circumscription. This place, the Comarca of Alagoas, despite not
having its own diocese, was inserted in the religious system established in Olinda,
headquarters of the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The presence of the clergy in colonial
society was an essential element for our study. Its characters formed a religious
authority linked to the "spiritual" administration in the daily life of the population
through social relations. Therefore, the object of study of this research is the clergy in
the region of Alagoas and the practices of their daily life, reflecting and approaching
their lived experiences, considering the dynamics of the secular clergy behaviors
including the so-called "uncommon practices" in the colonial "Alagoas" daily life.
Furthermore, to understand the insertion of the ecclesiastics in the structure of the
local daily life from the use of the clerical administrative structure proposed by the
Church and the Portuguese Monarchy in the region of Alagoas in the years 1712 to
1808, in order to map their integration in the territory and their mechanisms of
intersection with the social structures of Portuguese America.