Abstract
This article examines the changings within a Catholic mission territory - the state of Maranhão - from seemingly disparate aspects: local and international, religious and political. Focused on the second half of the XXth century, it aims to understand how the redefinitions of the ecclesial practice in that faraway region were connected to the reconfiguration of the international movement of clerics working in missions abroad. The work focuses on the new North-South wave of religious immigration, as well as on the changes in the institutional framework and in the forms of being a priest, highlighting the effects of politicization that affected some fractions of the clerigymen.
Keywords
Catholic Church; international circulation; missionaries; State of Maranhão