On Thursday, 9 October 2025, at 6:00 p.m., the Slovak Historical Institute hosted the book launch of Dejiny slovenského historického výskumu v Ríme [The History of Slovak Historical Research in Rome], authored by Ivana A. Petranský, a research fellow of the Institute. The event was moderated by the Slovak historian Beáta Katrebová Blehová. The Fraknói Research Group was represented on this occasion by Katalin Nagy, CPH fellow and resident researcher of the Group at the Vatican Archives.

2025. October 14.

On October 8, 2025, following the event in Székesfehérvár, the presentation of the large-scale project Bishop Lexicon 1804–1918 — The Dioceses and Bishops of Hungary (1804–1918). An Institutional and Biographical Lexicon, Vols. I–IV (CST I/7), edited by Zsófia Szirtes, Péter Tusor, and Rupert Klieber (Budapest, 2025) — took place in the ceremonial hall of the Central Seminary.


2025. October 8.

The Centro de Estudos de Historia Religiosa of the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) and the História, Territorios, Comunidades  research centre of the University of Coimbra jointly organised the First International Congress of the History of Dioceses, held in Lisbon from 22 to 24 October 2025. The Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group was represented by Róbert Oláh P., who, following the recent conferral of his doctoral degree, participated as a Research Fellow. His paper, delivered on 22 October, was entitled: “Benefice Acquisition and Advancement to Canonical Dignity in 17th–18th-Century Hungary. An Examination of the Personnel of the Győr Cathedral Chapter.”


2025. October 22.
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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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