Prayer for the departed members, directors and benefactors of the Roman Institute
On the Feast of All Saints on Friday, 1 November, the annual Vespers for the Dead will take place on the eve of All Souls' Day at 5 pm at Campo Santo Teutonico. The graves are blessed, including those of the directors Johann Peter Kirsch, Stephan Ehses, Hermann M. Stoeckle, Engelbert Kirschbaum, Ludwig Voelkl and Erwin Gatz. The ceremony ends with the Salve Regina at the central Achtermann cross. Everyone is cordially invited.
The members of the RIGG Rudolf Heinrich and Frank Gebhard Zander passed away this year.
Simone Andreoni MA, an art historian who graduated from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and is now a PhD student in Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. The subject of his research is the lives of artists, patrons and other subjects of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome from 1580 to 1700.
The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Ignacio Lascurain Bernstorff to the Board of Directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft.
The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Johan Ickx as Vice Director of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft. Ickx succeeds Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe, who has returned to Germany.
On 8 September 2024, the house community of Campo Santo Teutonico celebrated the 25th anniversary of profession of Father Augustinus Sander OSB, Benedictine monk of Maria Laach Abbey.
The 126th General Assembly of the Görres-Gesellschaft in Regensburg ended successfully with over 300 registrations and marked a stabilising stage on the way to its former greatness after the unfortunate Corona years.
The Roman Quarterly (Römische Quartalschrift), published by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and the College of Campo Santo Teutonico, is now available digitised from the first volume 1887 to the volume 2009. These 103 volumes are now available online free of charge on the Index Theologicus platform of the University of Tübingen.
Since September 2024, Dr Florian Pichler has been studying at the Pontifical Lateran University for a degree in both law. In December 2023, he completed his doctorate in Vienna on clerical confidentiality and the secrecy of the confessional in canon law and in Austrian and German religious law.
Since 1 September, Sebastian Grünbaum has been the new RIGG scholarship holder for the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship. In his doctoral thesis, he is focussing on the reception of the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
Joseph Ratzinger had been a member of the Görres Society - a catholic association of accademics, founded in 1876 - since 1957 and a member of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society since his move from Munich to Rome in 1982, i.e. for 40 years until his death in 2022. The desire has therefore arisen to honour the German Pope with a tribute. 37 former active members of the Roman Institute took part.