| Sumario: | This paper analizes the professional trajectory of Manuel Antonio de Ocio y Ocampo, a clergyman born in the town of Celaya in the Diosece of Michoacan, who moved to the Philippines to carry out his ministry, helped to found the University of Manila, and ended his days as bishop of the Province of Zebu, a process which covered the first half of the 18th century. Ocio and Ocampo’s trajectory will be read against the backdrop of the social mobility strategies implemented by Novohispanic groups and families, who used kinship networks and ecclesiastic professionalization as social capital. We are interested in interpreting Ocio and Ocampo as an example of human movement in its relation to the Monarcy and its spaces; we seek to show the cultural forms and elements that allowed him to transcend his regional sphere and view the Philippine horizon as a possibility and a professional goal regarding the service of God and the King. Moreover, our paper will allow an approach to the different factors that made thePhilippines a reality both distant and present in the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Diocese of Michoacan.
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