Sentence:  The Franciscan <WSD>provincial</WSD> Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.