Balázs Rétfalvi

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Balázs Rétfalvi (1985) Ph.D. candidate (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

External Research Assistant

 

Studies in Hungarian

Egyháztörténeti Szemle 12 (2011) 2, 3–38.

Hármas püspöki kinevezés 1944-ben. Hamvas Endre, Kovács Sándor, Mindszenty József, szerk. Zombori István, Budapest 2018, 45–95.

Fidelitate et caritate. Ünnepi kötet Németh Ottó 60. születésnapjára, szerk. Jakab Gábor–Németh Miksa–Rétfalvi Balázs, Győr 2021, 239–249.

Between 17 and 25 May 2026, the Fraknói Research Group held its customary annual institutional week in Rome. As in 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Saint Stephen House (Szent István Ház) once again served as the group's base of operations, symbolically continuing the revival of the Hungarian Historical Institute in Rome. From there, participants set out each day to conduct research in the city's major archival and library collections.

In honour of Bishop Antal József Peitler, the founder of the library, the Diocesan Library of Vác organised a jubilee conference entitled Library – Books

The centenary year organized by the Research Group named after Vilmos Fraknói was built on two main pillars: the commemorative conference held in early May in Nagyvárad and the international symposium in Rome. The annotated version of the presentations from the Nagyvárad conference, supplemented with additional studies, writings, and appendices, was published on October 16, 2024, as volume I/24 of the CVH series.

In 2024, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Vilmos Fraknói, the abbot of Szekszárd and Szentjobb, canon of Nagyvárad, elected bishop of Arb

Rétfalvi Balázs took part as a presenter at the centenary conference "The 100 Years of the Premonstratensians in Gödöllő." The event was hosted at the Gödöllő Royal Palace from November 28th to 29th. As an external scientific collaborator of the Fraknói Research Group and the director of the Szombathely Diocesan Archives, he delivered a presentation titled "The Hungarian Visits of Premonstratensian General Hubert Noots (1940–1942)" on the first day of the two-day event.

On September 30, 2023, on the occasion of the feast of the Guardian Angels at the parish of Szepetnek, two members of the Research Group, Balázs Rétfalvi and

The Fraknói Research Group is the intellectual heir and successor to the work of the eponymous Vilmos Fraknói. Its historical series, the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae, published since 2004, is a continuation of Fraknói's Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae.  The essence of the research group's work is that while the place of research and presentation of results is predominantly Rome, the processing work is carried out in domestic research centres, above all at the PPKE (Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest).
On May 2, 2023, at the Seminarium Centrale in Budapest, Fraknói Research Group held the presentation of the Collectanea Studiorum et Textuum I/5 volume entitled A magyar katolicizmus és Trianon (Hungarian Catholicism and the Treaty of Trianon).
Members of the Research Group had several media appearances during the days of the Pope's visit.

In preparation for the visit of the successor of St.

On 13 December 2022, the latest volume of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae (CVH I/21) series, Hungary and the Holy See of Rome III, was presented in the Bogdánffy Szilárd Hall of the Central Seminary in Budapest.
The Fraknói Summer Academy was held for the eighth time this year. This time, following the principle of "back to the roots", the event took place in Piliscsaba, the former campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
The seventh Fraknói Summer Academy was organized in Győr between 6-8 August 2021. Participants listened lectures on topic of church history.
Az I. világháborút lezáró békediktátumra emlékezett 2021. június 23-án a „Trianon és az Egyház” című konferencia. A tudományos fórumot a pandémia miatt a centenáriumot követően egy év halasztással rendezte meg az MTA-PPKE Fraknói Vilmos Római Történeti Kutatócsoport. Helyszínül Rev. Martos Levente Balázs rektornak köszönhetően a Seminarium Centrale földszinti aulája szolgált. Az intézményt régi hagyomány köti az egyháztörténeti, kiváltképpen a vatikáni kutatások támogatásához. Az 1880-as évek elején falai között folytak megbeszélések meg a Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae elindításáról többek között Haynald Lajos, Ipolyi Arnold és Fraknói részvételével. Utóbbi 1904-es tervezete szerint a Központi Szeminárium rektora lett volna az új római történeti és műveszti intézet felügyelő bizottságának egyik tagja a Szent Jobb-i apátság üresedése esetén. A püspöki kar által létrehozandó intézmény működését Fraknói Vilmos e javadalma bevételeiből kívánta biztosítani.
The 7th National Meeting of Church Historians was organized on 27th and 28th of May.

The fourth Fraknói Summer Academy was organized in Vasvár and Szombathely between 2–5 August 2018 with scientific lectures concerning church history.

On behalf of the Fraknói Research Group, Balázs Rétfalvi and György Sági gave lectures at the conference "Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo

A Kutatócsoport képviseletében Sági György, Tóth Krisztina és Rétfalvi Balázs vett részt az Egyháztörténészek 3.

Rétfalvi Balázs, a Szombathelyi Egyházmegyei Levéltár igazgatója, a Kutatócsoport doktorjelöltje a Szent Márton-évről adott