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

A Hajdúdorogi Görög Katolikus Püspökség Levéltára (Hajdúdorog Greek Catholic Episcopal Archives)

A HAJDÜDOROGI GÖRÖG KATOLIKUS PÜSPÖKSÉG LEVÉLTÁRA (HAJDUDOROG GREEK CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL ARCHIVES) 4400 NYÍREGYHÁZA, Bethlen Gábor u. 5. Archivist: Dr. István CSELÉNYI The foundation of the Hajdudorog Greek Catholic diocese is comparatively recent. The movement of Greek Catholic Hungarians for their acknowledgement in ecclesiastical life gained momentum in 1868, when the Hajdudorog congress of the delegates of 52 Hungarian parishes decided to start a united action for the sanctioning of Hungarian liturgy and the establishment of a separate Greek Catholic Hungarian diocese. They had to wait for decades, however. It happened in 1912 that the Minister for the Religious Affairs, Count János ZICHY acquired the consent of both King Francis Joseph and Pope Pius X. to the establishment of a Hungarian diocese. Hungarian Greek Catholics belonged to the Ruthenian and the Roumanian dioceses as far. The new Hajdúdorog diocese was formed of 162 parishes, to which also the Budapest Greek Catholic parish was attached from the former allegiance of the Esztergom Roman Catholic archdioecese. Evidently on the basis of the former vicariate, the new diocese retained the name "of Hajdudorog" up to our day, but the seat of the bishopric used to be formerly at Debrecen and later at the present Nyíregyháza. Till 1974 the archives of the bishopric were rather neglected. Partly the material was stored in unsuitable, wet premises, partly there was no person appointed to be responsible for it. Since then a favourable change was effected both in personal and in real respect. The archival material totals 55 to 60 running metres. The oldest part is the archival group of the vicariate, comprising the years 1878 to 1914. We do not know the destiny of the earlier records, they were destroyed probably. From the conscriptions of the revenues and expenses of the parishes and of the salaries of priests and teachers only the year 1896 is extant, the administrative records of the bishopric are continuous from 1914. The records of the Mariapocs bazilite province (1921-1941) are in the custody of the ar-