Römisches Institut der Görres-­Gesellschaft

Director: Msgr. Prof. Dr. Stefan Heid

"The Director is responsible for the local management of the Institute's activities. He is appointed by the Board of the Görres Society for three years at a time" (Statutes § 9).

"The Director has the following tasks:

• He represents the Institute externally.

• He supervises the scientific work of the fellows and assistants.

• He supervises the publications of the Institute and is the responsible co-editor of the Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte.

• He is responsible for the Institute's internet activities, which must comply with the guidelines of the Görres Society.

• He is responsible to the Board of Directors and prepares the regular reports for the annual report of the Görres Society.

• He reports to the Board of Directors on the activities of the Institute and prepares its meetings.

• He is a natural member of the Board of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society" (§ 10).

The director works on a fee basis (306,- per month).

Publications for download (free of charge)

• Eusebius of Caesarea on the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Römische Quartalschrift 87, 1992)

• Two Sermons of the Greek Ephræma delivered at the Encainia of the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Oriens Christianus 84, 2000)

• The good intention in Eusebius's silence on the finding of the cross (Römische Quartalschrift 96, 2001)

• Cross of Christ, Titulus Crucis and the Holy Sepulchre in recent publications (Forum Katholische Theologie 17, 2001)

• The Early Christian Judgment of the Heretics as "Enemies of the Cross" (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Ergänzungsband 34, 2002)

• Vexillum Crucis. The Cross as a Symbol of Religion, Mission and Empire in the Early Church (Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 78, 2002)

• Mount Sinai - Mountain of the Vision of God in Early Church Tradition (Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 79, 2003)

• Celibacy in the Early Church. The beginnings of a duty of abstinence for clerics in East and West (3rd edition, 2003)

• Posture of Prayer and Easternization in Early Christian Times (Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 2006)

• The appropriated Boniface: from apostolic missionary to "apostle of the Germans" (Trierer Theologische Zeitschrift 116, 2007)

• The C-series of edifying narratives by Anastasios of Sinai in Codex Vaticanus Graecus 2592 (Orientalia Christiana Periodica 74, 2008)

• Posture and Direction - Basic Forms of Early Christian Prayer (2009)

• Cross, Altar and the Right Way of Praying (2012)
• L'insegnamento di Erik Peterson al Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (2012)

• Erik Peterson's teaching at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (2012)

• Il celibato e la continenza clericale nella Chiesa dei primi secoli 2012
• La croce, l'altare ed il modo giusto di pregare (2012)

• Anton de Waal, the German priests’ college at Campo Santo in Rome and the Christian Archaeology of Dalmatia (2009-2011 [2012])

• La preghiera dei primi cristiani (2013)

• Baptism in Rome according to the early Roman martyr legends (Rivista di Arch. Crist. 89, 2013)

• I primi altari cristiani. Lezioni per oggi (La Sacra Liturgia, Siena 2014)
• Il sepolcro dei martiri nella Lettera ai Romani di Ignazio di Antiochia (Ch. Gnilka / S. Heid / R. Riesner, La morte e il sepolcro di Pietro, Città del Vaticano 2014)
• Primi cristiani: altare o mensa? (Avvenire, 2. April 2015, S. 24)
• L'altare fulcro della preghiera e del sacerdozio nella Chiesa primitiva (Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 91, 2015, 213-244)

• Vows (vota) in Early Christian Religious Practice and Liturgy (H. Merten / Ch. Schäfer [eds], Early Christian Funerary Inscriptions in the West of the Roman Empire [Trier 2015] 227-246)

• Le origini della Chiesa romana e la questione delle cosiddette Domus Ecclesiae (Rivista di Arch. Crist. 92, 2016)

• The early Christian altar as a sacred object (Holy and Sacred Things, 2017)

• Were there house churches? Notes on a phantom (Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne 38, 2018)

• Gli Atti di Pietro: ispirati dal teatro romano? (Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 94, 2018)

• Horror and Consolation - Michelangelo and the Altar Art at the Campo Santo Teutonico (Of the Presence of Eternity, Festschrift for Bernd Roeck, 2019)

• Kirche als Anwältin der Christlichen Archäologie (2022)

Publications in the "Römische Quartalschrift" for download (fee required)

• Apud beatum Petrum vigilemus. The nocturnal veneration of the martyrs' tombs in Rome

  (2016)

• Function and orientation of the ambo in the Byzantine and Roman tradition

  (2017)

• The papal liturgy in Saint Paul Outside the Walls up to Gregory the Great.

  (2017)

• Was there a community of Quartodecimans in Rome?

  (2019)

Publications in the "Herderkorrespondenz" for download (fee required)

• How late antique Christianity used the mass medium of theatre: the fall of Simon

  (2018)

• Did Peter really get as far as Rome? The Key Question

  (2019)

• The end of a legend. House churches never existed

  (2019)

• A salvation of the Acts of the Apostles as a historical source: on the pulse of truth

  (2020)

• On Hubertus Lutterbach's "Fatala Sacrality": 1500 years missed?

  (2020)

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Guided tours of Rome

I am available for student and academic groups for guided tours with an accent on the early and medieval church (with a background in art history and liturgy). My main focus is on the Esquiline (Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Prassede, Santa Pudenziana), the Lateran (Basilica, Baptistery, Sancta Sanctorum, Triclinium), the Aventine (S. Sabina), the Vatican (Campo Santo, Basilica, Gardens, Necropolis of S. Rosa) and the Roman Forum (Capitol, Via sacra, Maxentius Basilica, Arch of Constantine, Cosma e Damiano). For catacombs, I lead exclusively in Priscilla (via Salaria, 430).

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Created: 01 August 2018