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Pioneer Mexican Presbyterian ordained minister
On this day in 1887, José María Botello was ordained a minister by the Presbytery of Tamaulipas. Botello was born in Tamaulipas between 1840 and 1850 and lived in Matamoros. He converted from Catholicism to Presbyterianism and served as an elder in the Matamoros Presbyterian congregation. In 1883 the Presbytery of Western Texas licensed him "to preach the gospel to his people," and he was instrumental in the establishment of the Mexican Presbyterian Church of San Marcos, the first Mexican-American church in Texas to be affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Botello reportedly died in Mexico at the age of ninety-seven.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BOTELLO, JOSE MARIA
- MEXICAN-AMERICAN PRESBYTERIANS
- MEXICAN AMERICANS AND RELIGION
- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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