Cserhalmi Zoltán - Kelemen István: Arrabona - Regionális Tudományos Évkönyv 53-56. (Győr, 2018)
Tanulmányok - Fedeles Tamás: "Ad Omnes Sacros Ordines Promoveri". Győri egyházmegyések római szentelési ügyei a késő középkorban
ARRABONA 2015-2018. 53-56.____________________________________________TANULMÁNYOK “AD OMNES SACROS ORDINES promoveri”. Ordainment matters of the Győr Diocese in Rome in the late Middle Ages In June 1468 Rupertus Sweich of Eberau a cleric of Győr Diocese submitted a petition to the office of Sacra Poenitentiara Apostolica of the Curia. According to his petition the Bishop of Győr ordained priests only once a year and he expected the candidates to serve in the Győr Cathedral for a year preceding the ordainment on their own costs. Since, due to his poverty, being unable to take this burden upon himself, he asked for (and obtained) a permission to gain his full ordainment from some of the neighbouring bishops. In March 1488 Wolfgang Altmon, a student of Győr Diocese submitted his petition personally to the above-mentioned office asking for dispensation from the failure of his right eye (which was considered as an obstacle to the ordainment). Having obtained the dispensation he and some of his Hungarian fellows took the firs tonsure and the smaller ordains at the Santa Maria Regina Coeli Church in Borgo, Rome of which they received a certificate from the Camera Apostolica. In the populous groups of people visiting Rome there appeared from time to time individuals who wished to take on certain degrees of the holy order or wanted support to their promotions. Clerical ordainment matters in Rome belonged exclusively to the competence of the Apostolic Chamber until the end of the 15th century consequendy, the whole ordainment procedure in Rome was supervised by the chamberlain managing this central office. The most important information regarding ordainment matters were registered from 1425 to 1524 in a series of volumes of the Apostolic Chamber called Libri formatarum. While the interest of international research has been directed to this series of Archivo Segredo Vaticano from the end of the 19th century and several studies of modern concepts have been directed to this group of sources, Hungarian historians have not addressed them to day. This study surveys the said series identifying the matters concerning the Győr Diocese and embeds them into wider Hungarian and international contexts. It is about to find answers to the following questions: Who undertook the long journey and why? What percentage of the clerics from the Carpathian Basin belonged to the Győr Diocese? What kinds of preconditions were set to the candidates? What were the different elements of the procedure in Rome like? Which layers of the ecclesiastic society were represented among the petitioners? Tamás Fedeles 144
