5 November: The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology at the Campo Santo Teutonico

The ceremonial opening of the 2024/25 academic year of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology will take place in this year at Campo Santo Teutonico inside the Vatican.

The occasion is that 100 years ago, in November 1924, the first lectures in preparation for the founding of the Institute took place in the library of Campo Santo Teutonico. The founding director was the Luxembourg priest Johann Peter Kirsch, who lived in the German college at the time.

The opening mass will therefore take place on 5 November at 9.30 a.m. in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico (and not in S. Prassede as usual). The celebration will be presided over by the new Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives (AAV), Fr Rocco Ronzani.

Dr Albrecht Weiland, former secretary of the Pontifical Institute, will lead a tour of the cemetery where the grave of Johann Peter Kirsch (d. 1941) is located.

The academic ceremony with the Rector's speech and the presentation of the new students will take place in Pope Benedict XVI's auditorium. The new booklet ‘Der Campo Santo Teutonico und das Päpstliche Institut für Christliche Archäologie’ (German and Italian editions) published by Schnell & Steiner will also be presented.

Interested parties and guests are very welcome.

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Category: Roman notes