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Portales, an agnostic who says that he…

1828 CE – 1839 CE South America Major

Portales, an agnostic who says that he believes in the clergy but not in God, realizes the importance of the Roman Catholic Church as a bastion of loyalty, legitimacy, social control, and stability, as had been the case in the colonial period.

He repeals Liberal reforms that had threatened church privileges and properties.