This paper explores how foreign religious leaders affect native sociopolitical attitudes. I use a novel hand-collected database including the universe of Catholic priests' appointed in rural Spain between 2000 and 2019, and leverage on the quasi-natural experiment by which foreign priests are allocated to Spanish parishes. I find foreign priests are able to mobilize their parishioners towards more conservative and religious positions. Moreover, having a foreign priest fosters a change in people's local spending preferences, giving priority to community building expenditures. However, foreign priests also reduce people's desire for a status-quo change, measured as preserving francoist street names.