A priest or official in the Roman Catholic Church who worked in the Dataria, managing dated papal documents and correspondence.
From Medieval Latin 'datarius,' derived from 'data' (given). The position existed from the 14th century onward as part of papal administration.
A datary's job was to make papal documents 'real'—without their official dating, even the Pope's commands weren't considered legitimate, giving them surprising power.
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