When the natives were ready, they could start living in parishes and contribute with mandatory tithing, just as people in Spain did.

[3] But this plan never materialized, mainly because the Spanish crown lost control of the regular orders as soon as their friars set course to America.

Shielded by their apostolic privileges granted to convert natives into Catholicism, the missionaries only responded to their order's local authorities, and never to that of the Spanish government or the secular bishops.

The doctrines were founded at the friars' discretion, given that they were completely at liberty to settle communities provided the main purpose was eventually to transfer it as a secular parish which would be tithing of the bishop.

[4] In 1638, the Order of Preachers split their large doctrines, which meant large economic benefits for them, in groups centred around each one of their six monasteries, and the San Juan Sacatepéquez doctrine was moved under the Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala monastery jurisdiction:[5] In 1754, the Order of Preachers had to give away all of its doctrines and curatos to the secular clergy, as part of the Enlightened absolutism sponsored by the Spanish Monarch Carlos III.