Guerra de los Padres

Guerra de los Padres
Date1860 - 22 de junio de 1861
Location
Honduras
Result Victory of the Honduran army
Belligerents
Anti secular rebels Honduran army with support of the Salvadorean armed forces
Commanders and leaders
Miguel del Cid José Santos Guardiola

The Guerra de los Padres ("War of the Priests") was a violent political crisis that took place in Honduras between April and June of 1861. A conflict between the government and the clergy began when president José Santos Guardiola agreed to permit freedom of worship to the inhabitants of the Bay Islands, a predominantly Protestant colony of Britain. This contravened the Constitution of 1848.[1][2]

  1. ^ Thomas M. Leonard, The History of Honduras (Greenwood, 2011), p. 46. ISBN 978-0313363030
  2. ^ André-Marcel d'Ans, Le Honduras: difficile émergence d'une nation, d'un Etat (Karthala, 1997), pp. 115–16. ISBN 978-2865377251