In 1916 there were ten "native" clergy and more than this number by the end of the 1920s.

During his twenty years in Jamaica, he encouraged the growth of a local church with a native clergy and nuns.

"The whole missionary thing - you get native clergy and the missionaries step away, and that's the way it should be."

The problem of a native clergy would have been formidable in any case.

It was the same with the debate over a native clergy.

In 1950 the diocese was handed over to the native clergy.

And unlike later missionaries, Xavier supported an educated native clergy.

Other directives dealt with the training of native clergy and the missionaries' conduct.

Relations between Church and state are cordial; both want more native clergy.

By this time, Burgos had established a reputation as a defender of the native clergy.