Abstract
Ado, the bishop of Vienne, wrote a universal Chronicle during the reign of Charles the Bald (d. 877). The identification of Ado’s principal sources (Quotvuldeus of Carthage, Raban Maur, Orosius, Jerome and Gennadius, Isidore, Bede, the Liber historiae Francorum and the Annales royales des Francs) enables one to understand which chronological and theological criteria the bishop chose and to conclude that Ado was not involved in a political objective, nor was addressed to a lay aristocracy, as it has recently been suggested. Ado writes a history of the church, the mystical body and the consistent institution of orthodoxy. He highlighted the value of a number of bishops of Vienne such as Mamert or Avit, without ever seeking to concentrate attention on the metropolis alone or to write Gesta. His will to dispel all form of dogmatic ambiguity asks us to see in the Chronicle his support for the teaching the bishop considered for the clergy of his diocese.
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