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

A Győri Püspökség Levéltára (Győr Episcopal Archives)

issued by the governmental organs reorganized in the early eighteenth century (locotenential council, chancellery, chamber). The Missilia (1745-1856) contain the drafts of all sorts of records issued by the diocesan authority, embracing the whole orbit of church government. The series Fundationes (1692-1856) contains records on ecclesiastical and laical foundations, that of Ordines religiosi (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) records on the affairs of monks and nuns, in which the ordinary was entitled to rule, to decide or to take notice. The Parochialia (from the early eighteenth century to 1856) embraces records on the parishes of the diocese, being valuable sources not only of church history, but also of the economic and social history of the villages, mainly of the cities Győr and Sopron. The Visitationes canonicae (1641-1934) are equally important from the point of view of general history. The series Conscriptiones proventuum parochialium (16901896) contains the records of the parish regulation under Joseph II., the 1848 census of parish income and those of the national parish income censuses of 1802 and 1896, as regards the diocese of Győr. The series Testamenta (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) contains partly the probate cases of ecclesiastical jurisdiction but mainly the lawsuits of testmanets in the civil courts. Separate units are the papers of the bishop Ágost KERESZTÉLY (16971725), the "Mixed records on church government" (eighteenth to twentieth centuries) and the Miscellanea (1692-1856). From 1856 to 1944 the records of church government lack an arrangement according to subjects and they are found according to the number of filing. The archives preserve also the papers connected to the activity of the "Predial" nobles of the bishop of Győr, the district Vecse (1702-1850). The records of the management of the episcopal estates are preserved only fragmentary, mainly from the twentieth century. The bishop possessed civil and criminal jurisdiction as a landlord in the cases of the subjected population, the records of his activity in this field remained from 1744 to 1835. The papers of the attorney (1879-1942) touch the lawsuits of the episcopal estate and the diocese. The school archives (eighteenth to twentieth century) have a special source value for educational history and it consists of two parts. The material arranged according to subjects contains records on education from Joseph II to the middle of the nineteenth century, the filed material represents the activity of the Győr diocesan inspectorate of schools from 1902 to the outbreak of World War II.