The Bishops’ Lexicon devoted to nineteenth-century Latin-rite prelates, published in 2025 (I–IV, CST I/7), is followed at the beginning of the new year, on the Feast of the Epiphany, by a volume presenting the biographies of the bishops of the Greek Catholic dioceses of Hungary. Spanning 210 pages, the book introduces 31 hierarchs from seven dioceses. As in Chapters I–IV, the introductory descriptions of the Greek Catholic dioceses and the bishops’ biographies in Chapter V are presented in a uniform structure and methodological framework; unlike the earlier volumes, however, the dioceses are here classified and arranged according to the Greek rite rather than by ecclesiastical provinces.


2026. January 6.

The primary profile of the Fraknói Research Group is the continuation of exploratory archival basic research, first and foremost in the Vatican collections, closely linked to the historical study of relations between Hungary and the Apostolic See, as well as to diocesan history. Its work is carried out in an institute-like framework within both the Hungarian university environment and an international Roman context. The main platforms for presenting its activities and publishing its results are its website and YouTube channel. Dissemination is further supported through its own Facebook, Instagram, X, and Academia.edu pages. Below are comparative data on the 2025 audience figures of the website and the YouTube channel. Both platforms recorded more than 8,000 visitors.


2025. December 30.

Organised by the Fraknói Research Group, Andreas Rehberg, the distinguished medievalist of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (DHI), delivered two lectures at Pázmány Péter Catholic University on 20 November 2025. He first gave a classroom lecture entitled Councils, Emperors, Legates and Cursores. What the Repertorium Germanicum Can Tell the Hungarians – Traces from the Pontificate of Eugene IV (1431–1447), followed by a second presentation, L’ordine di S. Spirito (in Sassia) e l’Ungheria: l’arte di operare in periferia, in which he discussed his most recent research findings.


2025. November 23.
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The Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Péter Pázmány Catholic University was established in the June of 2012 as the ‘Impetus’ Church History Research Group in the frame of the Church History Research Institute of the University founded by Rector Péter Erdő in 1999. It carries on independently the latter’s publications (Bibliotheca Historiae Ecclesiasticae Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány Nuncupatae) and researches in Rome and in Vienna, with the involvement of academic and other funding sources.

 

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