Rome’s role in building the province of Córdoba in the first decades of the nineteenth century

Abstract

The present article explores Rome’s role in building the stateprovince of Córdoba (Argentina). It takes into consideration the role played by the Pope and the Papal States in the process of externalizing the province and how these stakeholders were at the service of the local elite to reassert and legitimize their power. For this purpose, it examines the set of images evoked to provide an identity to the political system in force at the time in the province-diocese of Córdoba