Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

A Veszprémi Püspökség Levéltára (Veszprém Episcopal Archives)

completed by various statutes, appointments and economic records. An elenchus reaches up to the 1800s. * In the course of arrangement, there is no research in the archives. Dr. Péter BALÁZS A VESZPRÉMI PÜSPÖKSÉG LEVÉLTÁRA (VESZPRÉM EPISCOPAL ARCHIVES) 8201 VESZPRÉM, Tolbuchin u. 16. (Pf. 109.) Tel. 11-12. Archivist: Dr. József KÖRMENDY The episcopal archives are coeval with the bishopric, founded between 990 and 997. At the beginning it was a common unit with the archives of the chapter. From the fourteenth century the separation of the estates of the bishopric and the chapter resulted in the separate management of the records in a locality connected with the cathedral sacristy. Of its medieval history we know that in 1276 the army of the Count Palatine Péter CSÁK devastated it, causing the annihilation of or damage to many records. In 1381, in the time of King Louis the Great, a part of the archives was burnt down. In 1544, as the Turks were approaching, the episcopal archives were removed to Sümeg, the transitional seat of the bishopric. The renewed Turkish danger induced the bishop János Bapt. VOLKRA (1710-1720) at about 1717 to place several episcopal and capitular records with the Győr chapter, they were burnt there, however. The medieval material of the episcopal archives were deposited "perpetually" in the archives of the Veszprém chapter. In 1777, at the partition of the bishopric, the new dioceses (those of Székesfehérvár and Szombathely) received the overwhelming majority of the records pertaining to them. The archives were arranged in 1830, the records divided into groups according to subjects, inside them into archdeaneries and parishes. From 1835 they were located in the order of current numerals. The archives sufferred minor damages during World War II. The archives are maintained by the Veszprém Diocesan Authority, and supervised by the diocesan bishop.