Historical narrative which emphasizes the inner life of the Church, ie the Church's pastoral mission. At the same time special attention is given to geographic growth, so that the content of this book could be defined as the penetration of human space by the Church's pastoral institutions, which leads us to also address historical statistics. Exhausted this book in successive editions, has been essential to supplement the text with those made capital new directions printed history of the Church, for example, Pope John Paul II.