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- ↑ Noozhawk (25 July 2016). "New Santa Barbara Mission Executive Director Monica Orozco Ready to Engage Community".
- ↑ "'Not to be called Christian': Protestant Perspectives of Latin American Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America," in Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretive Essays from Conquest to Present. Edited by Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry. Orbis, 2009. ISBN 978-1570758508
- ↑ "Westmont - History". www.westmont.edu.
- ↑ "Monica Orozco Named New Director at Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library". 23 August 2009.
- ↑ "The S.B. Questionnaire: Monica Orozco". www.independent.com.
- ↑ "Monica Orozco's Mission Mission". www.independent.com. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ↑ "Old Mission Santa Barbara Library and Archives". C-SPAN.org.
