La Santisima de Trinidad del Paraná

The missions were established and developed a way of paternalistic, benevolent governing that made the Jesuit missions a total contrast to the management of native tribes elsewhere in Latin America.

There were two priests assigned to each reducción, each with separate and clear duties. Both were to bring the Roman Catholic religion to the indigenous populations, mainly the Guaraní tribes, via spiritual instruction, education, commercial endeavors and trade.