Archbishop Ató of Osona False Metropolitans on the Marca Hispanica
JA Jarrett
Three, and recently four, candidates have been advanced for the role of first metropolitan a nascent Catalonia before its final separation from Carolingian Empire. All but one these cases challenged, that last, Ato Osona, has not, due largely to unquestionably contemporary papal papyri detailing appointment still hang in Arxiu Capitular de Vic. Looking at those their companion document however reveals disagreement detail which matches similar inconsistency few other sources episode. Using problems as place insert scholarly wedge, this paper cracks supposed ecclesiastical self-determination proto-national Church open doing so raises major questions about credibility much our preserved charter material.