Forum for Historical Research since 1888
Located next to St. Peter's Basilica, the Campo Santo Teutonico is the retreat of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG), the well-known academic centre for research into the history of the Church and Christian cultural heritage.
The death knell of St Peter's rang at 12 noon on Easter Monday, 21 April. Another chapter was thus added to papal history. The Roman Institute of the Görres Society, which was founded in 1888 and specialises in papal history, has seen 11 popes since Leo XIII.
Deadline: 31 May
Call for applications for two research assistant positions as part of the DFG project on the reception and non-reception of the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council in the documents of the Codex revision.
The information sheet, which has served the RIGG faithfully for years and has been distributed thousands of times, now has an Italian twin, which is also different in colour.
Dr Gabriel Steinschulte (Cologne), who worked for many years in Rome at the Osservatore Romano and at the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music and until last year was conductor of the Schola Cantorum Coloniensis, will speak on the topic: ‘The commitment of the Council prelate Johannes Overath (1913-2002) to Musica Sacra and the Campo Santo Teutonico’.
Among the current 963 recipients of the newsletter who are not members of the RIGG, the wide geographical reach is striking. The top recipient countries of non-members are:
The Princely House of Thurn und Taxis, with its ancestral seat at St. Emmeram Palace in Regensburg, has always shown an interest in researching its own history. This is also expressed in the new series of ‘Thurn und Taxis Studien’, edited by Wilhelm Imkamp, Peter Styra and Dieter Weiß and published by the Regensburg publishing house Pustet.
The ceremony in honour of Cardinal Kurt Koch on 22 March in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico with the presentation of the commemorative gift ‘Unity and Uniqueness. Ecclesiological Concretions in Ecumenical Perspective’ can now be seen on three videos:
Dr Georg Röwekamp, who has long been an institution in Jerusalem and also works closely with the Görres Society and the Roman Institute, has left his post as director of the pilgrims' house in Tabga on Lake Gennesaret, which he has held since 2020.
The Benedict XVI Forum is about the ‘sense of the sacred’. The speakers are Cardinal Kurt Koch, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Ralph Weimann, Markus Grabulich, Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, Stefanos Athanasiou and Andreas Wollbold.
The conference report of the conference ‘Time, Space and Calendar in Late Antique Rome’ organised by the University of Augsburg and written by Eric Klassen (Augsburg) has now been published on the H-Soz-Kult platform. The conference took place in November last year in co-operation with the RIGG and will be published in the supplement series of the Römische Quartalschrift.
Prof Dr Arnd Uhle (Leipzig) will speak on the topic: ‘Church financing in Europe: Notes on the forms of financing in the present’.
Arnd Uhle is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Leipzig and a constitutional judge of the Free State of Saxony. He is Head of the Law and Political Science Section of the Görres Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.
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The PIAC together with the Pont. Commissione di Archeologia Sacra as well as the Secretary of State provide two 3-year scholarships.
Curia Bishop Cesare Pagazzi from Crema in northern Italy had been Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education under Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonca for two years. He has now been appointed in place of Mons. Zani, who also came from the Congregation for Education, as archivist and librarian of the ‘Santa Romana Chiesa’. As such, he had to fulfil a variety of representative and diplomatic missions.
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Deadline: 4 May
A workshop on power structures from the 4th to the 10th century will be held at the University of Bonn from 5 to 7 November 2025. Contributions are invited.
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