This final ecclesiastical struggle for control of Ecuador is in vain, however.

By the end of the Liberals' rule in 1925, Roman Catholicism will no longer be the constitutionally mandated state religion, official clerical censorship of reading material will have been suppressed, many powerful foreign clergy will have been expelled, education will have been secularized, civil marriage as well as divorce will have been instituted, the concordat with the Vatican will have been broken, most of the church's rural properties will have been seized by the state, and the republic will no longer be dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ecuador will never again hold prerogatives as extensive as those it has enjoyed during the late nineteenth century.