-Badajoz Archival analysis of beneficio curato series in the Ecclesiastical Archives of the Archbishopric of Mrida-Badajoz

The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the documentation on benefices to parishes in the Ecclesiastical Archives of Merida-Badajoz (Spain). In order to do this, an analysis of the history of the archive and its documentation is presented, in order to later focus on the beneficio curato , showing an approach to the process and a specific study of the documentation kept in these archives.