tonantz̄in sancta yglesia = our mother the holy Church (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 130–131.
"Santa iglesia" was a fairly common loanword in colonial Nahuatl. Alva's guide to confession uses it 10 times out of 260 total loanword appearances of various kinds. The percentages of appearances of certain loans in Alva are very consistent with Chimalpahin, who also wrote in the seventeenth century.
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 23.
"Through most of the text the word for cathedral is iglesia mayor, main church, which Spaniards in all parts of the Indies had used in that sense up to this time. But in the last part of the text the loanword catedral appears, and after a brief transition it becomes predominant, surely reflecting the fact that the Spanish comunity of that time was adopting the more specific and pretentious word."
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 49.
ca yoqui techmonahuatiLia sancta ecLesea yhuan teopixquime saserdotis = thus the holy church and the priestly minister admonish us (Zacualco/Tzacualco, 1629)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 31, 196–197.
nehual nifiscal de la madre santi yglesia = I am the fiscal of the holy mother church (Santa María de la Asunción, Toluca Valley, 1758)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 185.
teopan yglesia yxpan crucifixo tecalco (Tlaxcala, 1566)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1.
15 pos 2 to quihuiquilia huey yglesia yhuan ce caxa yyaxca sancto sacramento (Jalostotitlan, Jalisco, 1611)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 27.
santa yglexia (San Juan Tolcayuca, Hidalgo)
A late colonial, Techialoyan manuscript in the Kislak Collection; f. 5r.
fisCal de Sata gelessia = fiscal of the holy church (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1736)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 155.
la santa mader gelesian = the holy mother church (San Lucas, Evangelista, Toluca Valley, 1759)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 164.