Willian Wicks, OFS, gives us a complete history of Regionalization – moving to geographical structuring and governing away from friar provincial jurisdictional structuring – in A History of the Secular Franciscan Order in the United States. … Presented here are only excerpts copied directly from Vol. III, Chapter 12, pages 277- 316. … No one can tell the story better than William Wicks.  The rest of the story, the details which mentions talks dating back to “1934 and probably before”, can be found in these volumes.