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

A Pécsi Püspökség Levéltára (Pécs Episcopal Archives)

The archival material totals about 10 running metres. The ecclesiasticalpolitical records cover the time span between 1727 and 1909, they are royal and episcopal decrees, decisions of Sopron county and Sopron free royal city, records of general levies, canons' donations, obligations, inventories, accounts of the collegiate chapter and St. John's church, together with mixed ecclesiastical records. The armorial bearings of the family Stupart of Löwenthal, issued by Leopold I. in 1664, is the oldest piece of the archives. The economic records touch mainly the village and estate Sebes, formerly in capitular possession. They are economic journals, socage records, estate accounts, conscriptions of holdings and villains, their petitions and complaints, corvée lists, records on the restoration of the Sebes mill between 1721 and 1869. The archives preserve a part of the papers of the family Baron Barco as a deposit: armorial bearings, family correspondence, estate maps, records on mines in Transylvania, etc., further a copy of the journal of the Transylvanian diet of 1794/95. * As the records are mixed up at present, no research is possible. Dr. Miklós VERES A PÉCSI PÜSPÖKSÉG LEVÉLTARA (PÉCS EPISCOPAL ARCHIVES) 7601 PÉCS, Szent István tér 23. (Pf. 113.) Tel. 14-224. Archivist: Pál KERSÁK The history of the Pécs bishopric begins with 1009. There are no records prior to Mohács left, with the exception of four pieces bought by the bishop Klimó, as they have perished during the flight from the Turks. Since the first bishops after the expulsion of the Turks (Nesselrod, Thurn-Taxis, Cienfuegos) did not stay at Pécs for a long time, the affairs were managed by the chapter and the records are in the archives of the same. The episcopal archives is continuous from 1700. It seems that the administration of the diocese was reestablished under the bishop Berényi (1738-1748), since then the affairs were managed by the bishop himself, or the vicar, or the Court Christian, respectively. All of them had archives and a secretary, drafting the