Patronato y soberanía. El deán Funes ante el problema de la fragmentación de las iglesias rioplatenses a la hora de la revolución de independencia

Abstract

At Argentina, the religious historiography has frequently considered the patronaro under a dual perspective in which we find the State confronts the Church in a same way. But we will shall see that at the beginning of the XIXth century neither the Church or the State were two well defined entities; on the contrary. both contained a multiplicity of jurisdictions and the patronato was trapped in them. In order to study this problem, we will analize the work of Gregario Funes, Cordoba's dean and author at 1810 of a brief treaty about this subject that become the basis of the political decisions of the govemmcnt since 1810.