A mess is what reformers often produce. The kingdom was uneasily divided between Galicia, the old-settled lands of the central plateau and the new frontier territories. The concerns of ecclesiastics were necessarily as diverse as those of secular men. There was little point of contact between them. The impulse towards change seems to have slackened in the second half of the century, perhaps because the administrative changes had been effected by then, perhaps because foreign reformers were no longer entering the kingdom in such numbers as they had done hitherto.
Organization is one thing, pastoral practice quite another.
We come back to the bishops themselves. How little we know about them, and how difficult therefore to come to any sort of judgement on them. In general they seem not to have been a very distinguished lot. It may be illuminating to compare them with their English contemporaries. In one respect the lack of distinction of the Spaniards is at once apparent.