TAMÁS FEDELES: Do all roads lead to Rome? Ordination of Hungarian clerics in the Roman Curia (1426–1523) (CVH I/25), Budapest – Rome 2025 (363 p. + 20 map supplement) Among those who visited the Eternal City, there were occasionally individuals—either arriv…
†JENŐ HÁZI – GÁBOR NEMES: The medieval account book of the Cathedral Chapter of Győr (1495–1528) (CST I/8; A Győri Egyházmegyei Levéltár Kiadványai. Források, feldolgozások 30), Győr–Budapest 2025. (1216 p.) This volume repays a longstanding scholarly debt.…
The scholarly legacy of Vilmos Fraknói in Rome is today embodied by the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae—the series that revived the Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae in 2002/2004. These volumes, which present the results of ongoing fundamental research, are publishe…
On June 12, 2025, the concluding symposium of the multi-year international project titled "Curia romana e nazioni europee" took place in the Eternal City, within the prestigious halls of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani (the same venue where the Research…
The public defense of Tamás Kruppa’s doctoral dissertation for the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), entitled From the Jagiellonians to the Szapolyais: Two Decades from the History of the Kingdom of Hungary (1519–1541), was held on 12…
Organized by the Fraknói Research Group and the Gyula Moravcsik Institute of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, the Fraknói Summer Academy was held for the eleventh time between 29 and 31 May 2025. After being held in Nagyvárad last year, this yea…
Between May 16 and 18, 2025, the Pongrácz Saint Stephen History Competition was held for the second time in Gyulafehérvár and Alvinc. Viktor Kanász, research fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, participated as a jury member alongside Teréz Oborni, Rev. Boton…
In recent weeks, the papal conclave has drawn heightened public attention. Alongside this interest, a multitude of self-proclaimed “experts” have emerged, spreading numerous inaccuracies and half-truths across various platforms. As the Fraknói Research Group c…
The Hungarian Medieval Studies Research Group, together with the National Archives of Hungary and the Archives of Pest County, organized the Medieval Book Fair on May 9 this year. As per tradition, the Fraknói Research Group participated in the event, where vi…
On April 18, Good Friday, Regényes történelem ("Romantic History") on Kossuth Radio featured a special example of late medieval Italian pilgrimages, presented by Viktor Kanász (the interview can be listened to here). The research fellow of the Fraknói Research…
Following the presentation in Kalocsa, on April 8, 2025, the Párbeszéd Háza (House of Dialogue) hosted the launch of the volume A kalocsai érsekség évszázadai (Centuries of the Archdiocese of Kalocsa), which contains the written versions of the lectures delive…
Tamás Fedeles, scientific advisor and co-leader of the Research Group, gave a lecture in Győr as part of the Church History Evenings – a public lecture series organized by the Diocesan Collection Center of Győr, the János Brenner College of Theology, and the C…
On March 21, 2025, a dual book presentation was held in Kalocsa at the Astriceum Archiepiscopal Museum. The event was organized by the Archdiocesan Archives of Kalocsa in collaboration with the Fraknói Research Group. The attendees were welcomed by Balázs B…
The Fraknói Centennial series of events, which commenced on February 27, 2024, and lasted for a year, concluded on February 26, 2025, on the eve of the birthday of Vilmos Fraknói (1843–1924), former Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at th…
Hungary’s Dioceses and Bishops (1804–1918). Institutional History and Biographical Lexicon I–IV, eds. Zsófia Szirtes, Péter Tusor, Rupert Klieber, Budapest 2025 (xxvi+832 pp. + [90] pp. annotated black-and-white and color image supplement). The first pha…
Magyarország egyházmegyéi és püspökei (1804–1918). Intézménytörténeti és életrajzi lexikon I–IV, szerk. Szirtes Zsófia–Tusor Péter–Rupert Klieber, Budapest 2025 (xxvi+832 p. + [90] p. kommentált, ff. és színes képmelléklet) [The Dioceses and Bishops of Hung…
The November–December period was a particularly important phase in the Fraknói Research Group’s activities in 2024, which also impacted the website’s traffic. Between November 1 and December 31, 2024, more than 1,400 visitors accessed the website. The peak occ…
The completion of the "Bischofslexikon 1804–1918" project, spanning multiple grant cycles and culminating in the fulfillment of one of the key commitments of the 2012 Lendület Program, was achieved in the spring of 2020 by the Fraknói Research Group. The resul…
Over the past years, the Fraknói Research Group has maintained its nearly two-decade-long active collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the Papal and Central European Research Center of the University of Viterbo. The depth of this cooper…
PÉTER TUSOR, Fraknói, Haynald, Ipolyi and the Monumenta Vaticana [Hungariae] (CVH III/2), Budapest–Rome 2024. 64 p.