Engenharias institucionais conexas na História do Brasil: Igreja e Estado, dioceses e distritos eleitorais

The purpose of this article is tounderstand the role of the Catholic Church inface of the Empire and of the First Republic.Analyzing in what way organizational structures– diocese – developed, structures that had asproposition the attachment to the institutionalmacroregional model of the electoral districts.The diocese, on their turn, had as proposition tomake ecclesiastical influence feasible or,whenever possible, the subregions controlbeside exponential Brazilian politicians and“coronéis” [colonels]