Olivér Kőhalmi

On 4 May 2026, during the Dies Academicus of the Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological College, Thomas Németh of the University of Vienna and András Dobos, lecturer at the Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological College, presented the lexicon volume published in the Collectanea Studiorum et Textuum series, devoted to the Greek Catholic dioceses and hierarchs of the nineteenth-century Kingdom of Hungary.

The latest volume of the Vatican–Hungarian historical series (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae, CVH I/27) bears the title Vilmos Fraknói and the Hungarian Bishops. The Struggle to Establish the Saint Stephen Institute for Historical, Artistic and Ecclesiastical Studies in Rome (1910-1913). The monograph—supplemented with an extensive documentary appendix—forms part of the historiographical research carried out in connection with the Fraknói Centenary of 2024.

Between 16 and 18 January 2026, the Vestigia Research Group, in cooperation with the Institute of Historical Studies ofKároly Eszterházy Catholic University (EKKE), held its workshop in Eger. Among the speakers were Viktor Kanász, Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, and Olivér Kőhalmi, its demonstrator.

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.

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.

On the afternoon of 11 September 2025, a double book launch was held at the Somogy County Archives of the Hungarian National Archives. On this occasion, alongside Éva Knapp’s volume Regeneratio et constantia, the source edition The Visitation Records of the Diocese of Veszprém, 1778–1779. III. County of Somogy, published by the Fraknói Research Group’s research fellow Viktor Kanász, was also presented.

On 13 March 2025, at the Special College Conference of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), Olivér Kőhalmi, a second-year history student at PPKE and a contracted collaborator of the Fraknói Research Group, delivered a paper entitled “The Correspondence of the Literary Historian Ferenc Toldy and the Priest-Historian Vilmos Fraknói (1860–1874)”, thereby continuing the historiographical research initiated by the Fraknói Centenary.