| Summary: | Brazilian Freemasonry was understood as not possessingtheanti-clerical dispositionthat marked part of its European trajectory. In imperial Brazil it was a source of political articulation present in high places of power. This fact made the Catholic Church-theofficial religion-opposeFreemasonry in what became known as the Religious Question (1872-1875), in order toinhibit government initiativescontrary to ecclesiastical interests.Weakened internally, the church utilized its anti-Masonic strategy inthe diplomatic sphere between the Vatican State and the Brazilian State, which is found in the document studied here: Instructions to Ordinaries revmº of Brazil, on how they should proceedwith affiliates to Freemasonry, 1878.
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