Research leader name
Prof. dr. Tamás Fedeles
The Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group was founded in June 2012 as the MTA-PPKE ’Impetus’ Church Historical Research Group under the leadership of Péter Tusor. The Church History Research Group of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, founded in 1999 by Rector Péter Erdő. The Fraknói Research Group will continue its research and publications (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae – Collectanea Studiorum et Textuum), which are mainly Roman in orientation and partly on diocesan history, independently, with the involvement of OTKA, MTA, ELKH/HUN REN and other funding sources, and with the support of the PPKE BTK between 2023–2026, within the framework of effective international cooperation. As of 1 July 2017, it has been carrying out its activities in the framework of the research site programme supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, reflecting its professional goals and identity in its name. From then until 30 June 2022, its official name was MTA-PPKE Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group. As of 1 July 2022, the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the University of Pécs became the supporting and hosting institutions. The official name was changed to “ELKH-PPKE-PTE Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group”.
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Together with the University of Pécs, as the second host institution, Tamás Fedeles is co-leader of the research group and helps to organise and coordinate the research. The day-to-day management is carried out by Péter Tusor, Viktor Kanász and György Sági. The official name of the Fraknói Research Group, which will continue to operate primarily at “Pázmány” as a research site, will be “HUN-REN PPKE-PTE Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group” from 1 September 2023.
The studies of the Fraknói Research Group, which move in the dimensions of Church History, are mainly of a political, diplomatic, cultural and institutional nature. Its main task is the systematic publication and processing of sources, which has been largely neglected since the positivist era. The Vatican collections serve as the primary focus of research. This will be supplemented – primarily in a thematic context – by materials from the Viennese and domestic letter and manuscript archives. (CVH I and II; CST I and II), published by GONDOLAT PUBLISHER, give space to the results of source research and historiographical work (Collectanea Textuum et Studiorum), and, due to their special importance, to Hungarian Vatican research (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae). The series, founded in 2015 and 2002, is edited by Péter Tusor. The primary goal of the Fraknói Research Group is to serve as a domestic backdrop for an independent, purely academic institute of Roman Hungarian history and, as far as possible, to increasingly fulfil its functions in the Eternal City. In addition, special attention will be given to the systematic cultivation of diocesan history. In the context of its university activities, it will pay particular attention to the education of young scholars and the participation of students in certain areas of its activities.
Internal members of the research group: Péter Tusor, Tamás Fedeles, Tamás Kruppa, Gábor Nemes, Viktor Kanász, Róbert Oláh P., György Sági, Zsófia Szirtes.
External members of the research group: Kornél Szovák, Katalin Nagy, Balázs Rétfalvi, Miklós Jávor.
