Pedro de reina y maldonado y la visita de idolatrías: ¿deber de los obispos Indianos?

During the 17^th and 18^th Centuries, several dioceses of the Andean plateau subject to the Archdiocese of Lima were visited to eradicate idolatry among the indigenous population to end the traditions, practices and rites not related to the orthodox Catholic doctrine. In this context, Pedro de Reina Maldonado, canon from Trujillo, stated that the American bishops had the duty, which was not laid down in the Universal Canon Law, to organize these mobile courts. Hence, this article studies and analyses if the organization of these visits against idolatry was actually an Episcopal obligation-and, consequently, of the Canon Law of the Indies-presented and stated by an ambitious priest born in Lima who wanted to ascend in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.