Science Center for History since 1888
On Saturday 22 March at 6 p.m. in a festive setting in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico, Cardinal Kurt Koch will be presented with the volume Einheit und Einzigkeit. Ecclesiological Concretions in Ecumenical Perspective will be presented to Cardinal Kurt Koch. Registration is
Raphaël Hunsucker studied Classical Philology and Ancient & Medieval History at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bologna and Nijmegen. He is now about to start his PhD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, with a thesis on the refoundation of Rome in Augustan times and (Christian) Late Antiquity, supervised by Prof. Dr Olivier Hekster, Prof. Dr Sible de Blaauw and Prof. Dr David Rijser. His research focusses on the urban Roman history of antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as classical Latin epic and historiography. He has published on the Palatine, Maxentius & Constantine, St Cecilia in Trastevere and Emperor Otto III.
Father Dr Rocco Ronzani OSA, a native of Rome and Prefect of the Vatican Archives (AAS) since last summer, was previously Professor of Patristics at the Institutum Augustinianum and the Laterean University. As Prefect of the Vatican Archives, he succeeds Sergio Pagano. Since its foundation in 1888, the RIGG has been gratefully associated with the Vatican Archives through its editions of the Cameral Acts, the Nunciature Reports and the Council of Trent.
The journal of the RIGG, the ‘Römische Quartalschrift’, comprises both the annual volumes, which are now accessible online free of charge from the first volume in 1887 (until 2009), and the supplementary volumes. The volumes that are still commercially available (from volume 62 onwards) can now also be viewed on the RQ platform of Herder-Verlag.
Felix Beck (* 2003 in Hamburg) graduated from high school in 2021 and has been studying theology ever since. He is currently studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as part of a gap year.
The RIGG website, which was created by ‘Der Auftritt’ in 2018 and has been maintained since then, has once again attracted a pleasingly high number of visitors - with over 160,000 visitors last year. If you would like to support the website, please contact
Every new year is an occasion for looking back and looking ahead, and the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft is no exception. We would like to thank all our friends, colleagues and supporters who have helped to plan and implement an ambitious programme and lead the Institute into a bright future.
Johannes Kindler comes from Schierling in the Upper Palatinate and is a priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Cross. He has been studying in Rome at the Dominican University Angelicum since 2023. He is currently in the process of completing his licentiate with a Mariological thesis with a special focus on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger. Outside of his studies, he is working in a branch of his order in the diocese of Tyler in Texas.
Dr Alberto Camplani is Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at La Sapienza University in Rome and a specialist in Egyptology and Coptic culture. He therefore gave a lecture at the RIGG during the conference on the chronograph of 354 (picture). He has produced numerous important publications, including on the earliest history of the Church of Alexandria. He recently founded, together with his collegues, the Centre for the study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages at the Sapienza, and we can look forward to his research.
After we discovered the book "Historische Intuitionen'" (Herder) in the shop window of the Bercker bookshop in Kevelaer, it is now also appearing in the shop window of Pustet in Regensburg (see picture). The following video introduces the book:
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